Days 18-21: Miravet and Riu Ebre A large slice of our first day here was consumed with a viewing of the nuptials of the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Helen having undergone her one-day transformation from republican to royalist that takes hold every few years. Our four days thereafter at and around Miravet are described here in a single entry, as time has – if not stood still – at least seemed less linear in its progress. So rather than a chronological order of our activities (and inactivities), this is a more thematic treatment. To continue yesterday’s description of our physical location: Miravet village is located on the outer bank of a right-angle bend in the Ebro river, part of it on the river flat and the rest clinging to various angles of hillside and
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