23rd June

22 – 23^rd June

It wasn’t a bank holiday Monday after all……….it was a bank holiday Tuesday! The feast of St John the Baptist, and because it falls on a Tuesday they all have the Monday off as well. On this and other journeys through Spain I’ve often heard people say that the Spanish don’t want to work. This isn’t entirely true its just that the Apostles don’t want the Spanish to work.

 So we had a couple of nights with some noise from the playground that is completely quiet around 9pm but then comes alive with kids on bikes, scooters, tiny tots pushing dolls prams, footy matches and last night we were entertained by a 10 year old gymnast doing all kinds of twists turns and back flips. Eventually the adults turned up just before midnight to take the little darlings home.

Sunday we rode to the little town of Castello d’Empuries, a delightful little place built around a medieval town. As it was Sunday we popped into the church to see for ourselves how the Spanish show their gratitude to St John the Baptist for granting them these two days of rest and rejoicing…..it was empty!