Blogs from Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
March 26th 2012
The only thing worse than having things go wrong, is having everything go as planned Right now Spain is in a rough spot. With unemployment in Spain rising consistantly over the past half year, more people then ever are out of work. It is said that one in five people do not have a job, bringing the total figure to nearly 5 million unemployed. The percentage is said to be around 23% which is more than twice the EU average. It is odd because at first glance, they do not seem to be suffering. However, looking hard at the surroundings, it becomes easy to spot. While there have always been people begging in the streets, the things I have seen in the past week have painted a bigger picture for me. The man begging outside of ... read more
November 1st 2011
We’ve hit the sun hurray – enjoying sunshine in a balmy 23 degrees today in a place called L’Ametlla de Mar just outside Tarragona. It took a few hours to get down from Jaca right through the Pyrenees. It was like an episode of Europe’s scariest roads – uphills not so bad, just slow. Downhills like being on a rollarcoaster ride. Apparantly 1998 Fiat Ducatos are not built with ABS We stopped briefly in Salou but lots of signs for shops with British food persuaded us to move to a slightly more authentic spanish place! We headed towards the only open campsite in this area and its not too bad – aside from the mad walk to town which is a nightmare. Walked in by the beach today all along the coast to the main ... read more
September 3rd 2011
Tarragona (city located in the south of Catalonia on the north-east of Spain, by the Mediterranean. It is the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragonès. In the medieval and modern times it was the capital of the Vegueria of Tarragona)... read more
November 19th 2010
Friday 5th November 2010 Travel on to Cambrils near Tarragona for the weekend where the boy’s birthday treat trip is close by. Walk into Cambrils town along the promenade warm and sunny somehow does not seem to be bonfire night ! Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th November 2010 Port Aventura – Universal Studio’s theme park in Spain is only open at the weekends at this time of year and although Woody Woodpecker is the main character Halloween is the theme and proves to be popular and busier than expected. This does not mean we don’t get to ride multiple times on our favourite rides and have a great time. Monday 8th November 2010 A quiet day on site after the weekend’s excitement and a chance to catch up with domestics. Tuesday 9th November 2010 Trip by ... read more
January 22nd 2010
Friday 22.1.210 day 100 Salou We got some supplies for our next trip and did some car maintenance. We also did some cloths washing and book some new accommodation for the next few weeks online. We got 2 kg of fresh live Muscles and cocked then up dinner sooo yummy. What a great way to celebrate our 100 day on holiday! ... read more
Cambrils fishing village/ roman Quarry
Published: January 31st 2010Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Tarragona
January 21st 2010
Thursday 21.1.2010 day 99 Cambrils fishing village/ roman Quarry Today we are having tapas and drinking sangria on the water front promanade at this ‘traditional Spanish fishing village’ (well maybe it was 30 years ago!) on a warm sunny day. Very pleasant - what a hard life. We also decided to checkout the 2200 year old Roman Quarry where the Romans (what did they ever do for us?) dug out the stone for the old city of Tarragona. Unlike many other ancient sites in Spain, this one was sign posted like an English Neolithic site (ie nothing helpful). After 500 metres we got to the aqua duct which was under scaffolding and being repaired, and blocking the path to the Roman quarry. Only then did the sign say ‘Closed for repairs 2009 to 2011, sorry for ... read more
January 20th 2010
Wednesday 20.1.210 day 98 Salou beach As we do not have internet at this hotel we decided to go for a walk along the beach front to look for an internet connection. We saw a McDonalds and an internet café there the other day. The McDonald did not have internet and the internet cafe was not open today. So we headed back to an internet cafe closer to our hotel and the internet was only 1€ an hour so that was good we got some of our jobs done and we did our washing as well. We did tappers for lunch then did a small shop and did dinner. We had a local desert of eggs and coconut is was so good we had 2 each, Yum yum.... read more
January 19th 2010
Tuesday 19.1.210 day 97 Tarragona We went back to Tarragona again and got a Tarragona pass that got us into a lot of the Roman sites for free it was 10€ each but was not worth it the main site I wanted to see was the Roman Circus it was fantastic and very well preserved it cost 3€ to see that and the other sites we got in was the wall but there was a lot of wall you could see without paying for it. The pass also got us in to the Amphitheatre that we had seen from out site the day before and we did not see any more by going inside so it is not worth paying to go into that. We also got to go in to a few houses which ... read more
January 18th 2010
Monday 18.1.210 day 96 Cambrils Today we decided to go to what we had been told by our resort was a little fishing village close to our hotel. We drove though the village but it seemed more like a tourist destination about 10% of the ships in the harbor where fishing boats the others where luxury sports boats and game fishing boats. The place was full of 4 and 3 star hotels and the beach front was full of upmarket restaurants with seating all along the beach front. We drove along the beach front and too our surprise came across out town it turned out that the two towns are next to one another. We then keep going and drove by the coast to Tarragona where we had a look around it coast. Between our town ... read more
January 17th 2010
Sunday 17.1.210 day 95 Salou beach We slept in today and then we had to sort out some problems with our unit is had not been cleaned properly before we moved in and there was a few things that where broken that needed fixing like we could not lock the door to our balcony. After we got most of it sorted we then went out for a walk along the beach. The Mediterranean is very blue and Salou has fantastic long beachers. We had Ostrich steaks and local fresh veggies for dinner tonight. I have never had Ostrich before it was fantastic. ... read more
