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| My (favourite) cousins are staying this week in the Golden Taurus
Aquapark hotel in Pineda de Mar. I arranged that I would go up and see
them for an hour or so. Just enough time to catch up, not too much to get
in each other's hair. So yesterday I trained up to Santa Susanna, the next town along. I stayed there overnight (I'd been before so knew where the McDonalds was!!!) and went to Pineda de Mar this morning. Turns out that cousin Steve may have had a tiny bit too much to drink last night although you wouldn't think so from the photo. When it was time to go Steve & June walked me back to the train station (just to make sure I left!) and I caught the next train into Barcelona. |
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As I got off the train I made an expensive (in terms of time) tactical error! On the departures board I noticed a train was going to Sant Vicenc de Calders within the next few minutes. Perfect I thought, I'll just jump on it and change there for Reus. Turns out I should have paid attention to which line it was. It was an R4. The R4 line (shown here in orange), as I have now discovered, does indeed go to Sant Vicenc de Calders but over most of the North West of Spain! Well maybe I'm exaggerating a tiny bit but it certainly added an hour or so to my journey. I should have been on the green line R2. All part of the joy of travelling. I'll know for next time.
And it was great to see Steve & June, Emma, Jordan & Rory, Matthew, Katie, Oliver & Jacob. (Note to self, sort the Oxford commas out of that lot!)
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Finally, this afternoon's "dinner" in Reus. What started out as what is called here "Russian salad" ended up at the table smothered in tuna and with a very typical side serving of bread and tomato. That's OK. I'll eat almost anything. |
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