Travel Journal :SPAIN ’12

I haven’t done any “travel journal” post lately and the wanderlust has got me…that’s why I decided to make this post,today…so that I can swim through my wonderful memories of last year’s experiences in Spain.

L’Escala is one of the smaller holidays resorts in the Costa Brava/Catalonia region – it is not far from the border with France and is perfect for people who want to avoid the mass-market package holiday resorts.

We went with my boyfriend’s family…so we booked a wonderful apartmanet with pool for the whole week.

We spent a lot of time at the pool…but we also spent a lot of time at the beach.

The best of L’Escala beaches are the sandy crescents ( Platja de Les Muscleres, Platja del Portitxol, Platja Montgo) that stretch between L’Escala and Sant Marti D’Empuries.

We took the train at 6 a.m from L’Escala and 3 1/2 hours later we were at our desired destination:BARCELONA

The shitty part was to come:we didn’t book any hotel cuz we thought we will find a free room near the train station…but we didn’t find any…as we planned.(a important soccer match took place in Barcelona that day,and all the hotel rooms were fully booked )

We went to a tourist information center…and they managed to book us a room…..in a 5 stars hotel

Imagine how happy we were to spend our last night in a 5 stars hotel (not happy at all)

We payed over 150 € for one night…and we spent just 5 hours in there cuz we were there to explore the city, not to spend our last day at the hotel’s pool bar

However,we checked in at 12 a.m. …a lil bit later than we thought we will be doing it and we went out to find a “sight-seeing bus” station.

I reached most of the places I wanted to visit. Things don’t normally go according to plan, we actually had to miss out some places…cuz there wasn’t enough time to see them all:(

One day in this fabulous city was definately too short and we are looking forward to another visit to take a closer look.

We also went to some shopping stores….I’m really sad that the coolest stores like :Victoria’s Secret,Stradivarius,Blanco,Pull&Bear are still missing in Vienna.