Saturday 23.1.210 day 101 France - Montpellier We were so excited to cross the France border in to France today and have our first night in the French Riviera. We are looking forward to going exploring tomorrow in Montpellier, were we are staying tonight. Montpellier was a key centre for the crusade and has a crusade fort that I would like to see. ... read more

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

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

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

Friday 15.1.210 day 92 Tarragona - Spain We were very sad to leave Andorra as it is fantastic so we headed to the beach town of Tossa De Mar it was a fantastic drive along sweeping roads with fantastic views and Temps got up to 22 up until today 10 is the highest temp we have had in Europe while we have been here. On the way to the beach we saw I saw what looked like 3 of the test team for BMW testing there new sports bike out on a nice winding bit of all the riders had the new bike that was launched when I was at the Milan show (do not know if it is in the shops yet or not) and they all had matching leathers and a BMW van as ... read more