7 – 9 January 2019 Benicassim

Cycled up to Oropesa wow cold in the railway tunnel. Picture below Maureen with her new hat.

Even this far south the beach sign still has Spanish and Catalonia n

Moving day tomorrow early start.

3 – 6 January 2019 Benicassim

Good drive down, after an early start, and on passing Tarragona the temperature dropped to 0 degrees. Arrived about 11.00 and as usual had difficulties getting a pitch in the area we wanted due to people leaving late. This is the view of the hills at the back of the campsite which we used to love to run up but unfortunately we are both on cold no. 2. Arghhh! the Barcelona bug.

So no running but we are managing plenty of walk-abouts. This site is becoming very British. It is very difficult to find people from other countries and despite there being lots of communal partying its difficult to find anybody with a good word to say about the British. How odd!!

The picture above shows how the seaweed, if not removed from the beaches, starts to build up. We have seen this previously up to a height of 6ft.

31 December  2018 2 Jan 2019 Vilanova Park Nr Barcelona

Catching up on laundry ready for moving, running, cycling, all the usual stuff. Noticed the graffiti below over the whole building side.

26 – 30 December 2018 Vilanova Park Nr Barcelona

Been back into Barcelona for a day. The Christmas preparations in Catelonia Square included a robotic giant and a mechanical book. Didn’t stop too long due to it being so busy.

Had another trip into Sitges by train and a cycle to Cubelles.

While walking on the sea front in Vilanova noticed these interesting tree roots. They are a bit like clouds, if you stare at them long enough you can actually see things!

Maureen still running and the weather is absolutely stunning as you can see from her running on the beach in Vilanova.

24 – 25 December 2018 Vilanova Park Nr Barcelona

Good cycle yesterday to Sitges out for 21/2 hours a good day with coffee in town.

Spotted in Sitges a bendy bus camping car bigger than a Concord.

Today Christmas day a steady day out coffee and a walk on the beach and into town.

20 – 23 December 2018 Vilanova Park Nr Barcelona

Another god run for Maureen along the beach front in Vilanova. A better choice for her as we don’t want another dog bite. Trip into Sitges but of a trauma due to the fact that we have the Catalonian problem now instead of the ‘yellow vests’. It was the anniversary of the dissolving of the Catalan Parliament and we had road and rail blocks. The AP7 at Tarragona closed and only one train an hour going into Barcelona but hey ho! slow travel is better than no travel. Topped up with all our food for Christmas and photo below plenty of Christmas el caganers about.

Got the Cycles out for the first time here and found I had a puncture but on replacing the tube found that a storage box had moved during the drive down and broken the valve.

19 December 2018 Vilanova Park Nr Barcelona

A good day today lovely weather and Maureen had her first run for a while after suffering with cold. We are usually good at spotting things on the beach and yesterday was no different we found “Sandy” see image below who now joins in our Christmas decorations.

14 – 18 December 2018 Vilanova Park Nr Barcelona

Had a couple of visits into Vilanova i la Geltru and also walked into town one day and walks along the beach. Took the train into Sitges to do some shopping and pick up some Mercado chocolate cake, yum yum! on the way in we noticed from the train a large bendi-bus converted into a camping car. Looking forward to getting a closer look and a photo for the blog when we walk into Sitges alongside the railway.

Went into Barcelona yesterday – saw this lovely tiger

We were very disappointed with the Christmas decorations. Still haven’t seen any to compare with Morris Leisure Oxon Hall campsite in Shrewsbury.

Gosh Maureen setting dinner (below)

Started putting up our Christmas decorations

13 December 2018 Vilanova Park Nr Barcelona

A lovely warm day but slight rain so we had a trip by train into Sitges for a walkabout. They were making a film along by the church and was putting up an umbrella to keep the rain off the lighting (That’s what i  call an umbrella) See image below.

The campsite has put up a lot of Glamping tents for this year.

Seen a lovely Santa a would be very interested to see what the present is O la la!

12 December 2018 Vilanova Park Nr Barcelona

Good drive down this morning weather lovely arrived lunchtime so coffee in Vilanova i la Geltru. Great to be back Barcelona is FAB