We left our aire by the almond blossom, but not before one of our co-campers came up and had a long chat. He informed us that a group were going into Benicàssim, right on the beach and near the shops, where they had found a site, previously unusable, but which now has been cleaned up. But we wanted to get on towards Barcelona and Antoni Gaudí, so we left them to their beach.
We had decided to drop off onto the Delta de l'Ebre on our way up to Barcelona. This place is renowned for its rice paddies and its bird life, especially flamingoes. Well, the driving to get to Els Muntells in this Delta was what Suzie refers to as an adventure drive — narrow roads, with huge ditches on the sides (close to the road itself, and even closer in parts where roadworks had cut away huge sections of the side of the road), and all this with gale-force gusts of wind pushing the van every which-way! And when we got there, it seems the wind had blown all the birds somewhere else — not one to be seen! Nevertheless, and interesting experience!
Roadside ditch (smaller than many, not as close as some!)
'Beach' — not sand, but mud flats
We continued up to Barcelona, taking a tollway to make the drive a bit easier.
The distant sea was nothing but chop in the wind!
A huge tollgate as we left the tollway
A Barcelona street
Distance driven — today, 250 miles ( 402 km ); to date, 14,402 miles ( 23,178 km )
I started one but David came along and wnted to catch up so i shut down before i finished. i meant to say why on earth don't we have acres of solar farms all over Australia and leave the darned coal to form diamonds in a few million years? instead, we've got miles of picket fence wind towers spoiling all the ambience of our mid-north views. I think Spain is fascinating and can't wait to hear about Bathelona! Have to be off to Uni tomorrow (Saturday) to print out the last 80 of my lit search docos. I find reading them on the computer worries my eyes and i can scribble all over them in paper version. I guess I'm causing more tree loss, but I shred all the paper I finish with and put it in the green bins for mulch. Guess I'll just put all the electronics on disc and leave them for Uni. Oh well, Life goes on doesn't it? Keep on Leylanding and have a ball. That bread sounds yumm!
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