In the middle of November, my parents came to visit me. We had a lovely weekend and I showed them around Tarragona and Reus.
On the Friday we spent the day exploring Tarragona, which involved visiting the Roman Pretorio and of course a visit to the Cathedral. For lunch we stopped at La Caseta de les tres Bessones for some tapas and a caña in the sun and in the evening we had a lovely meal at the restaurant below my flat, El Pigot.
On the Saturday there was the festival of the new oil in Reus, which we obviously had to go and experience! At this time of year, the first harvest of olives is ready and so they are picked and pressed to make olive oil. The process of tasting the oils involved going to every hut (picture a German Christmas market but with each stall selling olive oil) and tasting their oil and their olives, but we had to be careful not to let any drip on our clothes!
On Sunday my dad and I went to the amphitheatre whilst my mum and Valentina were at mass at the Cathedral, and in the afternoon we went to the port to eat paella (this time not seafood though, yuck!). One was with duck and mushrooms and the other was with pork ribs, butifarra (a type of Catalan sausage) and sweet peppers, which were both delicious but so filling!
On Monday morning we just had breakfast together before they had to get a train to Barcelona and I had to go to work, but it was lovely to see them and I can’t wait to go home for Christmas now!
Fresca como una lechuga bien frotada 