Given the current global environment, please excuse my recent blog hiatus! On what turned out to be my final weekend in Spain (😔), my parents came to visit me and we caught the train down to Valencia for the weekend. After checking into our AirBnB, we went to one of their restaurant recommendations, La Cigrona, …
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Montserrat
On Saturday (29th Feb) we went with AEGEE to Montserrat. From Tarragona it took about 2 1/2 hours by train each way. On the mountain there is a monastery which would have had great views if it hadn’t been so overcast! However the buildings were really pretty! After lunch we had to meet up with …
Carnaval and Correfoc
Until I went to Germany on my gap year, I was completely unaware of the idea of Carnival in February. Our carnival in Pewsey at home is in September (as well as the Wheelbeerow Race)… But in England the most we stretch to at this time of year is Pancake Day (one of the best …
Tea in Spain
This blog post is going to be about a very important topic which has been grating on me for the last five months… TEA in Spain! Being British, I must first make a disclaimer that we are as precious about our tea as Italians are about pizza. Faced with the prospect of making tea in …
Visit from Home: Barcelona, Tarragona and Cos Blanc
At the end of January my friend Lauren came to visit me. We had a lovely but very busy weekend! On Friday we went to Barcelona and managed to see nearly everything we wanted to. The highlight of the day was definitely the Sagrada Familia! We had an audioguide, but I was so busy taking …
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Christmas Traditions in Catalonia
It is said that the Catalans are very scatological people. That is to say, lots of their traditions revolve around obscenity. There are two main traditions in Catalonia at Christmas time that are scatological. The first one is a little man called the caganer. He is a small character who is hidden in the Catalan …
Visit from the parents!
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 …
Vilafamés and Medieval Festival in l’Alcora
Two weeks ago I wrote that this post would be published very soon, but I have ended up being so busy that I haven’t had time to write anything whoops! But here is my post on what Marina and I got up to when I went to visit her. I arrived reasonably late so we …
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A day in Valencia
When I was on my gap year in Germany between 2016 and 2017, I met lots of new people from all over the world. One girl I met is Marina, who is from a small village near Castellon de la Plana, and the second weekend of November I had organised to go and visit her. …
My first month in Spain – what I wish I’d known…!
Adapting to a new life… Having been in Spain now for just over a month, I thought I’d reflect on how it has been and what I wish I had expected before coming. 1 – the Spanish timetable Breakfast at 11:30, lunch at 3, tea at 6 and dinner at 10? In short, I can’t …
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