Viva Vernon's Vuelta: Don't drink the Pepsi.

Wednesday 31st October 2018 - Peñìscola

We had a lot of rain in the night.....best time of the day for it to rain. Hopefully that will be enough rain for the average monthly rainfall and we don't get any more.

Our first task was to drive to a supermarket and were caught out by a helpful member of staff who asked us what we wanted. We didn't really know what we wanted and we didn't know how to tell her we didn't know what we wanted......hope you understand. Anyway, we bought food to last us for two days to get past All Saints Day.

Our target today was a little place on the coast called Peniscola but first we wanted to stop at Tarragona which has lots of Roman ruins and is on the Via Augusta Roman road.

The amphitheatre is in a great position next to the sea. Their was a chariot racing 'circus' that's only partially visible and a forum. The cathedral was also worth seeing although we only saw the outside.

Someone must have nicked the steeple?

Tarragona is famous for its pyramids of people but we were really surprised to see this one. It caused quite a stir, especially when Janice pushed forward and climbed to the top!

Certainly well worth a visit but we moved on.

I'm not sure what I can get away with when I talk about Peniscola. We arrived at our site and cycled into the pretty hillside town that has beaches on two sides and a fortified castle on a hill on the peninsula.

The sun had come out but it was a quite a windy. It was nice and quiet. All the hotels and restaurants looked closed but we could imagine it being really heaving in the summer as the beach on either side was long and had hotels and apartments as far as the eye could see.