Sitges

More adventures on the trains as we headed from Tarragona to Sitges. Sitges lies between Tarragona and Barcelona, so obviously we would be on a train headed to Barcelona, but this time I checked the TIME of our departure to be sure we got on the right train. About three stops into our journey we had a very long stop. Just as I was beginning to wonder what was taing so long, a ticket agent got on board and started yelling in Catalan and pointing to a train across the platform. So everyone on board had to get off and switch trains. Mom especially loves times like these for all the pushing and shoving (ha). So we arrived in Sitges a little later than we had planned, but only about an hour. It was beautiful. Our hotel was right onthe beach, and the city stretches out along the coast with about nine beaches to choose from. The weather was sunny and beautiful. We spent most of our time wandering the beaches. We had a fun time gathering shells-something you don't see much of on the So-Cal beaches anymore, but there were tons of them here. We had a late lunch on the outdoor patio of the hotel overlooking the beach. The carnival was also going on in Sitges with plenty more costumes and another parade, although it wasn't as exciting as in Tarragona. We walked up and down the entire coast, Sitges was very relaxing and in perfect time as we were getting a little road weary from all the travelling. I couldn't believe the weather, I even had a tan line from our afternoon out and all I could think was how it was snowing in Switzerland. While we were enjoying our almost 60 degree weather I heard it was 80 in Phoenix. Wow.

The following afternoon we returned to Barcelona. The train station in Sitges has only one platform so we only had to concern ourselves with making sure we got on a train headed in the correct direction this time, and it was only about 30 minutes or so to Barcelona. We went out for tapas in the evening and returned to the hotel fairly early. On Tuesday we had a flight home but not until 6pm so we went in the city and rode a tour bus around all day. It was a very nice day so we enjoyed the last bit of nice weather. There was still a little snow on the ground when we got home. I was at least warmer than when we left though.