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Thursday and Friday

04/10/2013 18:21
Thursday, well we  are off home tommorrow an lots to o today. last minute shopping, fags a nd booze to purchase, washing and ironing to cach up with, so not a lot of travelling or adventures today, just a visit to the tobacconist to get supplies for the next few months or so, but as prices are...

Wednesday, Excurtionistas

02/10/2013 21:02
Today we decided to visit some of the towns along the coast toward Barcelona, we thought that we would go to Materò, then walk back along the coast to the next station on the way back,then catch the train to the next station and get off and walk again and so on until we got back to Malgrat. Well...

Tuesday, Barcelona again

02/10/2013 17:51
We set off quite late for Barca today, about 2:30pm, arrived there about an hour later, we had decided to visit some of the lesser attractions, we have seen most the others so many times that they are becoming old hat to us.   We got off the train and started to head down to visit the...

Sunday Tordera Market.

30/09/2013 20:24
Tordera is an industrial town in the middle of nowhere with very little going for it, but on Sundays everything changes, it becomes home to the biggest street market in Catalonia, the whole town is taken over by street traders and stall holders, and almost completely blocked with stalls, they...

Mataró

29/09/2013 17:49
Saturday, as the air show in Barcelona has been cancelled in a bit of tit for tat by the Spanish authorities, we decided to visit Mataró, to see the roman remains.   we set off quite early and arrived there at around 10:30 am having learned from the hotel receptionist that there were...

Day 12 Santa Sussana

28/09/2013 08:06
stayed a bit closer home after our moutaineering exploits yesterday and took a walk along to Santa Sussana, the next door town, we kept away from the coastal tourist parts and headed inland to take a look at some of the old churches and watch towers, there are several in the area dating from the...

Day 11 Palafolls

26/09/2013 17:44
We took the bus this morning to the nearby town of Palafolls, famous for it`s now defunct iron works and castle,  there is nothing left to see of the iron works other than a few quarries on the sides of the hills and a couple of mine entrances, the mines were worked out before the first world...

Day 10........

25/09/2013 21:24
We have done absolutly nothing today, just the super market for water and some fresh fruit, we are both absolutly futu after the last couple of days........

Day 9, Barcelona again

25/09/2013 16:36
Tuesday, Market in Santa Sussana in the morning a huge market all along the main seafront road for about 2 miles, we took a couple of hours to browse our way through all the stall and purchased ourselves a camera bag each, similar to some that we had seen in Malgrat, but half the price, we both...

Day 8

25/09/2013 16:23
We slept in a bit late this morning after our busy day yesterday (and Cava) and decided to take it easy, so we took a 10km hike around the local area, up to the hills nearby, then back into Malgrat and a visit to Parc Francesc Macia, a local park for all ages, super quiet relaxed place with trees,...
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