Saturday 13 September 2008

09/09/08 - Crazy Barcelona roads

Another day to remember. Marea was up and out of bed first!! The
drawcard - a chance to witness a sunrise.

Unfortunately, the beautiful sunny day of yesterday was replaced by
clouds today - so our sunrise was less than spectacular I'm afraid,
and looked more like a milky moon:-(

Once packed, we were heading south, past numerous working girls on the
road to the Catalan capital of Barcelona. We read that there were
camp grounds to the south of the city - we found one alright, but that
was while zooming past it on the motorway. Taking the next exit we
found a nice big sandy beach, but the only way into the campground
seemed to be straight off the motorway!!

Since we had missed the campground, we negotiated endless motorway
entrances/exits, roundabouts, dead ends before finally finding a
supermarket - then it was back slowly along the motorway where we
found the entrance again and got ourselves a nice front row seat
looking out over a golden sand beach to the windy ocean.

We hadn't achieved alot for the day, but I think the sun from
yesterday had taken all energy out of us. So a quiet evening was had
watching the waves roll in, and sampling these very

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