Cadaques
Back in March we took a day trip to beautiful Cadaques on the Costa Brava near the French border. Cadaques is famous for being the home of the painter Salvador Dali and is still popular with painters – easy to see why.
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Day trip to Aubaygues
We took a day trip from Barcelona to the South of France last week – to Aubaygues village, close to Lodeve, to be exact.
When I was 9 years old we moved to Aubaygues from England, and I went to school in the local village – St Etienne de Gorgas. Aubaygues is a lovely village as you can see, and its the first time I have visited since we left when I was 11 years old.
Oliver and Pia also got to see Aubaygues for the first time. It was a lovely day out :-)
Visit to Montseny National Park
We drove to Montseny today and took these photos. Lovely park.
Visit to Palau Novella
Busy weekend. Today we drove up to the Parc Nacional de Garraf, which is off the coast road near Castelldefels (close to Barcelona).
The drive up the mountain is fabulous – desolate but beautiful scenes – pine trees, steep drops, valleys and streams.
Our first stop was at Palau Novella, a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery – the only one in Catalunya. The Monastery keep goats and sheep, offer short pre-arranged tours and yoga/relaxation classes.
Nearby, there is a Catalan donkey refuge. The aim of the refuge is to organise breeding of the race, which is endangered – there are only 1000 Catalan donkeys left.
The donkeys have very distinct markings – white rings around the eyes and nose. The man who looks after the donkeys let us in to the refuge and put Oliver on one of the donkeys. He loved it :-)