Mike Jose and David came to join me for a couple of weeks. Mike and Jose have been to Europe a lot and were well familiar with Barcelona. It was David’s first time. So we spent a couple of days showing him the highlights of this wonderful city. I never get tired of all the things this city has to offer. By now I can get anywhere I want by metro. I love public transportation over here. It works so efficiently and is really so cheap. We decided to take a little sailing trip down south. So off we go to Sitges, a wonderful resort town just south of Barcelona. We spent the day anchored right off of shore enjoying the sun and the warm Mediterranean Sea. It is a fun way to spend the day at the beach without getting sand all over. In the evening we sailed to the port in Sitges and spent the night exploring the cute shops, hanging out and having a wonderful dinner together. It was so much fun, we decided to spend a couple of days there. After soaking in the sun and the local flavor of this quaint village, we headed further south to the town of Tarragona. It is an old town established by the Romans to guard their foothold in this part of Spain. There are still remnants of this foothold the most impressive being a nice sized coliseum. Scattered around are crumbled walls and watchtowers. A lot of the ruins were destroyed during that most uncivil civil war in Spain. It is still worth a visit, which should include a visit to a 14th century church and monastery, the old governing palaces and a gothic area of town.
We spend the night there and sailed back to Sitges the next day. Just a brief overnight stop in Sitges and we were off to Barcelona. But we didn’t stay long.
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