Chinese food, buddhist temple and the rice fields of Catalunya. May 17th 2011

So here we are with our rental Renault provided to us by the norwegian automobile federation NAF with the help from RACC (catalonian one), or something like this. The point is that we´re having this car with the plates of Principality of Andorra. Having the car we have to drive it until TTT is done (remember, it´s on the break-service in Andorra). So here we´re driving it, to the well known places of Barcelona district.

Pretty much idilic camping spot on the beach in Malgrat de Mar

A little tour to the memory lane....My old balcony on the third floor of the building where i used to live once. It´s going to be demolished soon.

And our favorite chinese tapas bar with the best patatas bravas and almondigas in the world. Just across the road from the old house.

The beach of Casteldefels is full of kite surfers this time of the year

Castelldefels

So here we´re driving this Renault car just to kill some time waiting for TTT to be ready there in Andorra. We thought we knew the places all around Barcelona area so well. Surprisingly enough, we always manage to find some new ones. And this is exactly why we love Catalunya so much. You never get tired of it, keeping discovering the new spots. Like this time - we had no idea there was a beautiful buddhist temple well hidden between the hills over Sitges. Just one sign from the main road and the kilometres through the mountain road and you find peace and ....a buddhist temple, just like in Thailand.

And then we´re driving along the coast line towards Valencia, means south on autopista A7. We have been here before. A beautiful delta de l´Ebre area, the national park. As it says in its name, it´s a delta of the Ebre river. However we had no idea they had the whole area full of the rice plantations here. We should have guessed it before, given all this water around. But frankly, i had no idea they grew rice in Spain. Shame. No we know it. Pictures of the beautiful Delta are below. Palm trees, water, rice plantations and a beautiful sunset - loved the combination.

 

Here you see all that water which turned out being the rice fields.


So to sum it up, this tiny day trip to souther part of Catalunya turned out to be a pretty asiatic one - starting at our favorite chines place in Barcelona, going over to the buddhist temple hidden in the mountains and finishing on the rice plantations of Delta de l´Ebre. Catalunya will never stop surprising.

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