Tripping around from Canet-en-Rousillon
Tuesday 25th September (Canet-en-Roussillon)
Spent a lazy day at home, and, having just found out our last phone bill was $1,594 we decided that as we have free internet access at the reception area of the hotel, is part of the village, we would use Skype to make a few phone calls. This is really a cheap way to call with landline calls to Australia costing only $0.027c per minute and the sound quality is pretty good. Caught up with family and friends had lovely long chats. Off to Perpignan for afternoon tea then to our usual spot at Joe’s for pork spare ribs and rugby. (Japan vs Canada and Romania vs Portugal).
Wednesday 26th September (Canet-en-Roussillon to Le Barcares)
Drove to Le Barcares village, by the sea to check out the markets. Was cold and windy and occasionally rainy but that did not seem to stop Pam. She bought a couple of little things and a pair of shoes for her for around A$15:00, so was very happy with herself. She tells me that I should be very grateful that she has a size 41 foot as she cannot find shoes in this size, and I should be appreciative of the fact that she is saving us money! Cannot quite see the logic in this but never mind. Also beautiful seafood lunch on La Lydia which is a grand old ship imbedded and cemented into the sand right on the beach, and then coffee at Port La Nouvelle. Tiny and not very “nouvelle” (new) but great coffee. Back home for dinner and spent time trying to work out Wheel of Fortune in French on the T.V. (not very successfully). Downloaded and updated photos and off to bed for an early start tomorrow.
Thursday 27th September (Canet-en-Roussillon to Figures)
Today was another “crack of dawn” start being out of bed at 8.20am and on the road by 9.15. We programmed “Gar” to head to Figueres which is a few kilometres over the border into Spain and Pam had seen a notice somewhere that there were markets on there today. It was interesting at he border as cars, trucks and busses are put through different lanes and although there was only one car lane open the cars went through without stopping and there was no passport control. On both sides of the border there were police looking at the cars as they went through but we only saw one car (of the 100 or so in front of us) get pulled over. “Gar” got a bit lost when we got into the city so we took over manually, found what we thought was the markets but could not get a park so drove around the markets only to see they were produce markets so we continued to drive around town, got a park (scarce as the proverbial hens teeth) asked the traffic policewoman in a mixture of French and English “where are the markets” to find they were in fact in the next street some 100metres away. Two Euro got us two hours parking. Pam was in her element so I (Paul) went and got a “grand cafe crème” which even the Spanish seemed to understand. Met Pam some time later and she had bought a few things for the grandkids (looks like another case to be sent home) and then we went back to the car, put another single Euro in and got another four hours parking so we did not argue and had a seafood paella for lunch and then went to the Salvador Dali museum which was only 100 metres way in another direction. Inaugurated in 1974, and completed during Dali’s lifetime the Dali Theatre-Museum was built upon the remains of the former Figueres Theatre which was destroyed at the end of the Spanish Civil war. It contains the broadest range of works spanning the artistic career of Salvador Dali 1904 – 1989. The museum is itself the largest surrealistic object in the world. We both commented that we had never seen such a range of art in any one place before. There were art forms such as paintings, sketches, jewellery, sculptures, of all size and shapes. Many of these we did not understand or appreciate but many were simply beautiful and you could not help but admire them. This was yet another “tour highlight” for us. Back to our village to update diary, download photos, have our last dinner at Joe’s and pack as we have decided to leave a day earlier for Toulouse.
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