Hola di Catalunya!

Hello Nellie, you have recently booked our CL - would it be possible to contact me again please?

I haven't learned if you can private message me on here!

Thanks

Dean

Sorry Dean,

No such luxury as private messaging on here I'm afraid! 

There is no PM facility on this Forum.-----  But---- The way to contact others privately is to include an Email address on your profile. Those who need to contact you privately, can then contact you via that email address. 

It works well, many of us have been using this method for years. 

K  

We've come down from the mountains back to the coast at Roses today and we have this wonderful sea view from our balcony.  

On the way we visited a town called Besalu which apparently was recently listed in The Guardian as one of Europe's best "unheard of" medieval towns. It has a superb fortified entrance  (sadly reconstructed after damage during the civil war) and historic Jewish and Christian quarters. Luckily for us today was festival day and in the main square the local band was playing and there was a traditional dance taking place which seemed to consist of 4 or so folk forming a circle which then grew and grew as spectators joined in. It looked very informal but there were obviously some rules as everyone seemed to be making the same steps at the same time!

Bakers - sorry, forgot to answer your question! Yes, we are on an organised tour. Don't tell anyone else, but between you and me and these 4 virtual walls, it's a SAGA tour and is extremely well organised.

We are by some way the youngest couple in the group which has one big advantage for us - at every stop the first thing the tour manager points out is the location of the toilets, resulting in a mad dash in that direction ( well maybe dash is not exactly the right word!) So we get 20 minutes or so to wander round on our own before the group gets back together! 

Forgot to say, it's 27° at the moment, 7pm Spanish time!  

Thanks for the posts and pictures Moulesy,  I'am enjoying touring Catalonia with you, all from my sofa!  It's been almost as warm here today 25°C .

17c and raining here so your holiday sounds good Moulesy. 

We had rain last night, proper rain just like we get at home!  As our room's on the top floor of the hotel and the balcony has no roof, it meant a couple of extra hours in the bar, so no great hardship. 

We'do spent the morning at the nearby village of Cadaques, famous as the place where Salvador Dali lived and worked for many years before he allegedly ran off with the wife of a fellow artist who was visiting them. There'should not a lot of evidence of his time there now, just a statue on the seafront. It's a quiet, picturesque little place with a church which looks very plain from the outside, but when you go in you are confronted by this fantastic huge golden coloured altarpiece.

A very pleasant few hours.

Roses itself is an odd mixture of modern and ancient. A huge sweep of beach lined with modern hotels and a swanky marina, but just over the road, less than 100 metres from our hotel are the remains of the ancient citadel, dating back to the 4th century BC, a mixture of Greek and Roman structures.

Tonight's our last night here - off to Barcelona via Girona tomorrow for the final two nights of the tour.