16th -18th June

16 - 18^th June

The weather is now settled at a comfortable 25c most days although we’ve had cloud and downpours in the evening. On Monday 16^th we cycled into Pals old town and walked around the medieval buildings. We went down to the northern end of the beach and found a closed bar that we’d previously used for wi fi. We managed to get on to the internet there and catch up with events.  Basically our evenings are dominated by the world cup and most nights we watch the 6pm match and the 9pm match at the camp bar big screen. The 3 days a week abstinence from booze is now under threat as we discovered that beer is cheaper than mineral water at the bar!. We’ve decided to stay a little longer here and make use of the 7 nights for the price of 6 offer.

The beach here is quite attractive and I’ve been swimming about 3 times a day, the water is definitely warming up and on Monday we had some big waves that were throwing themselves on to the shore….kids (and big kids) were having a good time riding these.

Yesterday (Tuesday) we headed for L’Estartit on our bikes, as the crow flies a return trip of about 14 miles however after we’d zig zagged around the paddy fields and negotiated a few rivers it turned out that the return trip was around 35 miles.

L’Estartit is basically a pack ‘em in, feed ‘em, water ‘em and tan ‘em resort. Having said that it has an appeal about it…a clean beach and nice sea front and if you rummage through the cheap bars and beachwear shops you will find something to write home about.  We decided to eat here and found a great restaurant on the waterfront called the Kon Tiki. For 16 euros each we had probably our best meal of the holiday, 3 courses with the main dish being fresh fish comprising of both fresh salmon and hake.