You guessed it we have motored south into Spain. We had plenty of thoughts about what we should do. We thought about visiting Perpignan and then moving to Spain and stopping near Girona but the weather forecasts for that area seemed to be changeable, so we thought that we should head further south to get some settled sunny weather.
Today had actually been bright and pleasant all day. We took an executive decision to use toll roads to help our journey. This is the first time we have used them.....it hurts my principles!
The objective was to get south of Barcelona and find somewhere to stay for one night. We stopped at the first service station in Spain. It was pretty quiet, maybe because we stopped before lunch time. We went to the counter to order two coffees and it suddenly dawned upon us that we now had to try and speak in Spanish. I had to use all my six Spanish phrases in one go....
Buenas Dias
Dos cafe
Por Favore
Gracias
Amigo
Adios
What little I know does come in handy for ordering coffee but I need to learn some more, I think. It will probably all be food related though.
We got passed Barcelona with only a small delay for a broken down lorry in the middle of the motorway. Then we headed to the coast to find a small site near the beach at Roda de Bera. It's just for one night but it is clean and functional and fairly quiet. One of the first things we did was go for a walk along the beach. The temperatures were up to around 18 degrees so we were much warmer than yesterday.
It was just as we like it.....empty of people. There are no hotels and the nearest town seems very quiet although there is a big marina. I'm not sure if I could cope with the likes of Benidorm?
We need to do some shopping tomorrow because the 1st November is All Saints Day and if Spain is anything like France it will be a public holiday and everything (I mean everything) will be closed. We intend to move on to Peniscola before travelling to Valencia for the weekend but it could all change.
All I can think of to finish off the blog today is.....Espania por favore! You will have visualise me clicking my castanets and stamping my feet!
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