Blogs from Cadaqués, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
June 7th 2010
Dropped off Lynn and Mike at 8:00 for their 10:00 flight to US. It was a good dry run for us. Now we would know where to go for our flight on Friday. We headed off for several days exploring Catalonia. You see "Catalonia is NOT Spain" spray painted all over, signs are in two languages and people speak differently. Our plan was to follow the expressway along the coast and bypass Barcelona, but somehow we ended up going right thru the middle, but to our surprise it wasn't as bad as one would expect...(for me at least, I think Ruth heard a few choice words). Ruth claims I behave differently when we don't have other passengers. The coast is as you might expect; a series of industrial and resort communities..until we reached Tossa de Mar, ... read more
May 19th 2008
Why not… It’s just over the border! After an hour or so windy drive we came to a little Spanish seaside village. No bargains to be had here I’m afraid, the shops were expensive and the menus priced as per France but our lunch was delicious. French food so far hasn’t lived up to expectation. Out of the wind the sun is scorching so we found a little rocky alcove to have a little time in the sun. ... read more
October 10th 2007
I think I will begin my blogging about Europe with a warning: It could be FAR more boring than Africa! Consider yourselves warned! We got into Barcelona really late one night but still managed to rent ourselves a car and find our hotel without asking anyone for help! Of course there were not very many people to ask on a Barcelona highway at 1 am! We had not eaten anything since our wonderful pizza lunch in Marrakech but of course nothing was open at that hour. The hotel desk clerk suggested we go to the truck stop next to the hotel! This is where I got to try out my great Spanish for the first time. We would like some "Pringles verde" please! That's right, we had sour cream and onion Pringles, peanut M&M's and leftover ... read more
September 25th 2007
Since our last blog we have covered quite a lot of distance. So here goes... We left Bamberg and headed down the (yet another lamely named) Romantic Road where we popped into the almost ridiculously well preserved walled city of Rothenberg. Whilst fighting our way through hoards of grandparents I almost expected to see lepers begging on the streets and criminals hanging from the rafters. We then headed down to Munich and 2 very wet days. Luckily we stayed with German friends of Paul and Michaela´s, named Steffen and Susanna. They kindly let us hang out at their stylishly modern pad, showed us around the city, and fed us sausages and bretzels. The rain got a bit much after a while and we wound up watching a movie then hanging out in the beer halls. Our ... read more
Fiesta de San Juan, Yachting and More Dali
Published: June 24th 2007Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Cadaqués
June 24th 2007
(pretend like I’m up to date . . . ) After a couple days in the castle, Pepe and I headed north to Cadaques, a small fishing town in the north part of Costa Brava (very glad Pepe es pequeno because the streets are TINY). With the help of LoQuo, Spain’s Craig’s List (very handy), I found a week rental right up the street from the water and main square. I was told the owner is an older English woman who spends most of her time there creating pottery and then goes back to London to sell it. This place brought back great memories of staying at Nana Cuca’s house (my grandma). Lots of nick knacks and mismatched things that still seem to go together, hanging laundry outside, little flower pots on the deck . . ... read more
