Been back into Barcelona for a day. The Christmas preparations in Catelonia Square included a robotic giant and a mechanical book. Didn’t stop too long due to it being so busy.
Had another trip into Sitges by train and a cycle to Cubelles.
Cubelles
While walking on the sea front in Vilanova noticed these interesting tree roots. They are a bit like clouds, if you stare at them long enough you can actually see things!
Maureen still running and the weather is absolutely stunning as you can see from her running on the beach in Vilanova.
Another god run for Maureen along the beach front in Vilanova. A better choice for her as we don’t want another dog bite. Trip into Sitges but of a trauma due to the fact that we have the Catalonian problem now instead of the ‘yellow vests’. It was the anniversary of the dissolving of the Catalan Parliament and we had road and rail blocks. The AP7 at Tarragona closed and only one train an hour going into Barcelona but hey ho! slow travel is better than no travel. Topped up with all our food for Christmas and photo below plenty of Christmas el caganers about.
Got the Cycles out for the first time here and found I had a puncture but on replacing the tube found that a storage box had moved during the drive down and broken the valve.
A good day today lovely weather and Maureen had her first run for a while after suffering with cold. We are usually good at spotting things on the beach and yesterday was no different we found “Sandy” see image below who now joins in our Christmas decorations.
Had a couple of visits into Vilanova i la Geltru and also walked into town one day and walks along the beach. Took the train into Sitges to do some shopping and pick up some Mercado chocolate cake, yum yum! on the way in we noticed from the train a large bendi-bus converted into a camping car. Looking forward to getting a closer look and a photo for the blog when we walk into Sitges alongside the railway.
Went into Barcelona yesterday – saw this lovely tiger
We were very disappointed with the Christmas decorations. Still haven’t seen any to compare with Morris Leisure Oxon Hall campsite in Shrewsbury.
A lovely warm day but slight rain so we had a trip by train into Sitges for a walkabout. They were making a film along by the church and was putting up an umbrella to keep the rain off the lighting (That’s what i call an umbrella) See image below.
The campsite has put up a lot of Glamping tents for this year.
Seen a lovely Santa a would be very interested to see what the present is O la la!
Hurray, how lovely to be in Spain. While travelling down France not only was it the ‘yellow vests’ that created problems for us but the petrol pump robbed us of 21 centimes and Darian got a small coffee in a medium cup and the coffee was not drinkable.
Up early today just in case we had any more priblems with the ‘yellow vest’ brigade but no problems at all. Had a long drive with a 57 euro toll payment but not as much as northern France where we paid roughly 100 euros for 4.5 hours travel.
Arrived at Camping Albera at 1.45. Had good weather all the way here. Below picture of an anti-dog electric fence.
Up early to catch the train. Main motorway blocked but managed to get to the terminal in plenty of time. Motorway down to Geraudot very wet and windy all the way from Calais. 5 hour drive. Very tiring. On arrival at the campsite bumped into our first person that we knew – wardens from Bristol Wharf campsite who we also met in Vilanova last year.
Not a bad drive down to Tournon, weather OK but held up by the ‘yellow jackets’. They had managed to close a 300 kilometre stretch of motorway which led to much frustration finding an alternative route, not just for us but the many wagon drivers. It made our 4.5 hour journey into 7 hours. Even on our arrival at Tournon they were trying to block the motorway exit and created problems on most roundabouts. Arghhhhhhh!
Christmas decorations Tain l’Hermitage
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