It´s Bathelonnna!

At least thats how us locals say it.
We left San Sebastian as it was just too bloody cold.
We went sight seeing and it really was quite beautiful, but 5C and not much fun.
So we made the decision to shoot straight across Spain to Tarragona, an ancient Roman city about 100kms south of Barcelona. We got up early expecting the 500km trip to take all day.
We did it in under 4 hours mostly travelling in the slow lane!

Tarragona was a great choice and we are pleased we made the decision to go there. Instantly it was 15C warmer and I could wear my shorts again without the locals looking at me like I was a refugee or mad or both!
Our hotel looked right down on an old Roman amphitheatre and across the nice blue sea.
On the second day we found a nice little village square (plaza) with restaurants, bar and lots of locals. We had a very cool 3 days with lots of fun and it was probably the best part of our holiday so far. Lots of laughs with heaps of photos to come later. One special highlight was sitting in on a
Castell (Like a Spanish human pyramid building festival)!
From there we moved up the coast to Barcelona and have experienced all the city has to offer. Despite being told it was too dangerous we hit the local nightlife with reckless abandon. Late, in fact very late we found ourselves in a bar with a Spanish barman, A colombian man, a french woman and an italian couple all speaking different languages.

At one stage the men decided that Tequila is the language of men and the barman produced a plastic bottle with a hand written label attched to it with a sticking plaster. Brilliant!
Any way Rachel invited them, along with at least half of Spain back to our house for Xmas.

I didn´t /couldn´t leave our hotel at all the next day so we added an extra night to our Barcelona stay.
We used that day to simply be tourists, something we have pretty much not done on this trip and toured the city on an open double decker bus and looked at the Gaudi cathedral and park.
Today it´s All Saints day here in Europe so not much is open. We are going to move up to Figuers (sorry about the spelling, the spell check works in Spanish only) the place of birth and death of Salvador Dali. I´m a Dali fan, so will be visiting his house and museum.
Then we are back across the border back into France where we will spend a week in the south before moving on to Italy.