9th June

9^th June

After visiting the town for a really good (but overpriced) steak dinner we decided we’d had enough of L’Ametila and also decided to give Sitges a miss and head straight for Llafranc.

The journey to Llafranc was around 166 miles and we made good time again avoiding the infamous Bandits of Barcelona (the Rottweiler picture in the window worked again!)

Kims camping were doing an offer of 16 euros a night thereby matching ACSI rates.

We were booked in by a young ‘cool dude’ who responded to each of our answers with ‘Perfect’ and kept telling us not to worry….we weren’t worried about anything apart from the time he was taking. He reassured us that the site would get a lot quieter around 4pm when all the Spanish would go home after (guess what) another bank holiday…and it did.

After the disappointment of L’Ametila, Llafranc was all we remembered it to be, a really beautiful little town set around a sheltered cove. When you mention the Costa Brava to most Brits they probably picture busy large resorts with cheap bars and hotels. Llafranc and its nearby villages Tamariu and Callela De Palafrugelll is nothing like that. There are no large developments or cheap bars it is the type of place you can retreat to in a warm September to write your intended novel or life story. However these places, because of there quaintness,  must be avoided at the peak of summer. This stretch of coastline could be amongst the most beautiful in Spain.