Beach to Barcelona

Miami Platja to Calafell Platja to Barcelona

Day 19 - Friday - July 1
We were up before most other campers. We took our breakfast food to the tables by the pool. This is only about half of  it. There was also a wading pool.

Tarragona left no doubt about where the bus station is located!

We found this statue of a casteller, a human castle, on our way through town. 

It was a great place to watch people and have an ice cream snack besides.

People really liked standing with these 3 musicians.

We saw approximately .004% of Andorra's cars here as well.

More Roman ruins on the way out of town.

This young lady was our entertainment during lunch .

Back at the beach. This sidewalk went on for miles. It is empty at this time of day but in Calafell Platja, where we spent the night, it was packed at dinner. We didn't take our cameras to dinner but should have since it was Friday night. A flamenco dance school from Barcelona was on the outdoor stage and people-watching was equally interesting. 

Day 20 - Saturday - July 2
We saw a couple sand castles last night but this fellow is working on a new one.

It was not quite a busy as last night but still a popular place to be.

This had to be the thickest cup of hot chocolate that Donna had ever had....almost like they just melted a dark chocolate bar and added a tablespoon of milk.

Still impressive but last night the dragon had candles in his nostrils.

We were in search of a bicycle store in Vilanova and asked this young man for directions since he was on a bike.  He and his wife didn't just give us directions, they insisted on guiding us all the way there, truly Angels of the Road!

Display inside the bike shop.

Doug did find some new gloves there so it's the trash can for the old ones.

We opted for the scenic route from Sitgres to Castelldefels.  It was narrow and cars were required to give bikes 1.5 meters of space when passing. We could almost go faster than the cars on the downhill sections. The train tracks are actually between us and the ocean.

It went up and it went down.......and up.....and down...and up...

....and down into Caladellfels.

It took us 2 hours to get from the edge of Barcelona to our hotel towards the center. It  is a  city of 2 million people and loves one way roads which kept us consulting the GPS on a regular basis.

Saturday night in Barcelona is a busy place too.