Fiesta

Spain is a country full of festivals, everywhere we went there was always some local Fiesta on the go. People making music in the streets and doing traditional dancing, and Catalunya was the highlight for this. Catalunya wants to have an Independence Referendum in 2014, so I am not sure if this gave them the extra bit of spark?

We camped in Sitges for 10 nights. This was officially the cleanest and best kept campsite we have found on our journey, and it was only 1km from the beach!  At any point in the day you can find the cleaning ladies cleaning the various service areas. It was so good we decided to stay there and skip very expensive Barcelona. There is a 40 min bus ride for under 3 Euros from the campsite to the center of Barcelona :) thus we just did that twice.

On our first night in Sitges we met up with Colette's brother, Quintus. He showed us around town a bit, and pointed out the cheapest tapas bar! This is also when we bumped into our first fireworks. In Sitges the locals love walking around the streets whilst shooting fireworks followed by a procession of traditional dancers, human towers and a drum band. Its quite spectacular, this went on almost everynight that we were in Sitges. On Quintus's good advice we visited the Bacardi museum the next day where they tought us how to make the perfect Mojito (we had to make one ourselves!). Our last two nights in Sitges was the highlight of the Santa Tecla festival, this ment two days of paper mache giants, human towers, traditional dancing, people turning themselves into fireworks... and one massive official fireworks show. Sitges is really small, so it was easy to get the best seat on the beach for the fireworks show: it was out of this world!

In Barcelona we did the Red Bus tour, I had been to Sagrada Familia before and when we saw the queue we decided to not do it again. The absolute highlight in Barcelona was the Camp Nou experience we did. This is the 100 000 seater Barca stadium. The stadium has an awesome interactive museum that will bring tears to any sports fan's eyes. My sister's two sons are Barca fanatics and I was just wishing they were with us. I had no idea what a great organisation FCB is, it is as they say "more than a club". The experience includes the museum, the commentary boxes, the visitors locker rooms, the press room, the stadium, the tunnel, the field and lifting the Champions Cup!