31 December 2024-5 Barcelona
Last day of the year shopping and coffee in Villanova.
Back to the site for washing day start the new year nice n clean 10 Euros and soap and conditioner automatically added.
Afternoon a lazy sunbathing time have done a lot lately.
30 December 2024-5 Barcelona
Down at the bus station is where the local train museum is.
Into Villanova for coffee and shopping shops will be closed again for new year. The roads are very busy at the moment Spain is on the move for holidays now.
Cycle again in to Sitges for a look around different route this time market day on the sea front and stopped to take a picture of the lovely houses here.
On the cycle route I have spotted these sewing machines over the years but they are getting a bit rusty now.
29 December 2024-5 Barcelona
It was April fools day in Spain on the 28 December so a little bit of information for you all.
April Fool’s Day isn’t a tradition in Spain, so we don’t celebrate it. But we have our special day for jokes and pranks, and it’s in the middle of the Christmas period: on 28th of December.
Nowadays, in Spain we celebrate this day by pranking each other, and making jokes (sometimes too risky). The classiest joke is to stick a paper in the shape of a child on people’s backs. When the victim realizes the joke or “Inocentada”, the jokers will scream: Innocent! which in Spanish is “¡Inocente!”.
Into town on a very busy bus today more people on the site for new year than Christmas. Town was lovely and empty just how I like it. Coffee then a walk down to the Sunday antique market at the bottom of the Rambler.
In the afternoon my usual cycle about looking for new things.
28 December 2024-5 Barcelona
Bus into town yet again the staff in the coffee shop are trying to get me to order my cake (correctly) in Spanish.
Back to the site then back on the bike again cycle into town had a really good cycle about very interesting lots of new streets loved it.
27 December 2024-5 Barcelona
The trains are covered in graffiti but it does look good inside.
Bus to Villanova then train to Sitges had a good walk about spotted santa again and a lovely raindear.
Their are some lovely clothes shops here although some are a bit out of my class.
Houses here on the sea front are about 2.000.000 Euros.
In the afternoon a cycle down to Cubells for a coffee some of the food shops here have cash tills so the staff do not have to touch the money.
26 December 2024-5 Barcelona
Bus today into town for a coffee and walk about and a bit of shopping some shops open.
Back to the site some washing then wash the van and clean the carpets yet another good day ending with coffee in the site restaurant.
Caga Tió, or Tió de Nadal
“During Christmas, there’s a log that you feed scraps of food, and then he poops presents when you hit him with a stick and sing a song!”
Caga tió, (Poop log)
tió de Nadal, (Log of Christmas)
no caguis arengades (Don’t poop salted herring)
que són massa salads (They are too salty)
caga torrons (Poop turróns)
que són més bons! (They are much better!)
25 December 2024-5 Barcelona
Cycle into Sitges this morning 2 1/4 Hours great watching the surfers and the street sales men setting up.
On the way back I remembered one year we went to look at the old racing circuit just outside Sitges near camping El Garoffa very interesting history not many people on these campsites are a wear of it. Link below….
Autódromo de Sitges-Terramar – Wikipedia
Cycled back through Villanova to site for lunch then a short cycle up into the Garraf National Park.
24 December 2024 Barcelona
Bus into town for coffee cake and shopping all shops closed tomorrow then had a cycle down to the sea front spotted a poor camping car that had been burned out.
Some of the buses here don’t need upholstering often.
In the afternoon had a cycle up to Cubelles to do a few streets I haven’t done in the last few years.
23 December 2024 Barcelona
Caught the bus into Villanova for coffee spotted Santa gosh he is getting old.
This caravan has been hear that long they have grown a lemon tree.
No wonder dinosaurs are getting extinct if owners keep throwing them away ?
In the afternoon got the bike out and cycled into town for a bigger look around then coffee in the site restaurant (perfect poco cafe – moo calienti.
21 December 2024 Zaragoza
MAX temp today 17 degrees.
Early start C Club open at 0545 for breakfast got message to go to van at 0800 left ship 0905 for the drive down to Zaragoza this is a wonderful journey at times you could see 50 miles ahead. Driving on the Toll roads is just so stress free after England’s roads. 4 ½ hour trip (Dire Straits music all the way FAB) just one stop for a coffee got to the campsite at 1330 ish. Booked in and off to Mercadona for some shopping 3 trips to get stocked up on milk its only a 20 mins walk. Had a chat with a few motor homer’s. Maybe an early night as I have another 4 hour drive tomorrow to Barcelona area. (ELO music tomorrow).
22 December 2024 Barcelona
QUE TIEMPO HACE HOY
Hace sol – Hace – calor 17 degrees
A good journey down again I love these roads you can travel great distances without seeing any town only grape vines and olive trees although I did spot a dead wild boar at the side of the road. Yesterday’s travel cost me 73 Euros in fuel. Topped up before leaving Zaragoza. Stopped a couple of times for a leg stretch and 1 coffee. Got a good pitch and saw a couple of people that we knew from past visits. Music today great for driving on a motorway (Blondie ONE WAY OR ANOTHER good eh)?
After its journey through the province of Huesca, the Greenwich meridian continues its course into the province of Zaragoza. In this section, it crosses the region of Los Monegros, a region characterized by its semi-arid landscape and its unique steppe ecosystem.
A point of special interest on the route through the province of Zaragoza is the intersection with the AP-2 motorway. At this point, between the towns of Bujaraloz and Candasnos, a commemorative monument in the form of an illuminated arch stands over the road. This structure marks the passage of the Greenwich meridian through the province of Zaragoza, representing a point of convergence between an abstract geographical concept and a tangible physical reality.
It is worth mentioning that this intersection point is traveled daily by numerous vehicles, most of whose occupants are probably unaware of the geographical significance of the place they are passing through: an imaginary line that divides the planet into the eastern and western hemispheres.