maanantai 13. elokuuta 2012

Barcelona outwards from Zone 6

Well last night we got to Zone 6 with one ride and two trains.

8th of August waking up

Woke up at Sant Salvador camping area about 1,5 km away from the trainstation to Barcelona. This time it was not an iPhone alarm, but a baby screaming his lungs out. Clearly somebody needed breakfast more than me. Well we got up and Janina was ready to go find breakfast for me before I start to cry also. I stayed back for a wash, gathered our stuff and packed.





Janina came back from hunting. She had picked up some ingredients that we could use to make our own breakfast. Sant Salvador was a beach town so we went to the beach to find a small shadow where we could eat. It was really hot like 30+. We also got hot coffees from an Icecream and cafe. We found a place next to some trees on the beach walking street.





There was a lot of people on their morning runs but it seemed it was a bit hard to run because of the heat. We were also talking about going for a run but agreed we would do that on a colder day.

We got our stuff from the camping and paid the bill 22,40€ for tent and two people. With salty water for washing and poor service I have to say its a rip off. I tried to get the price lower, but no the guy said as it's high season he wont change the price.

We were a bit of unsure about the HH place and stood on the other side of the roads trying to get the cars going to the autobahn or on the smaller route towards Malaga. When I saw a big traffic I demanded to go forward to the gasstation. I was standing beside the road with my flag and Mika was asking for the people in the station.

Just as I was thinking in my mind "Should I suggest to go back to Barcelona and take the train from there to Malaga, as it seems to be so impossible to HH here"

Mika was just a few meters away with the sunscream and water as a Polish couple stopped to save us. Olgierd and Justyna were goind to the countryside near Valencia. I thought great about 200km towards our destination. They were on a romantic holiday, without their kids. It was their 10th anniversary.

Mika:
They spoke really good english so it was easy to keep up conversation. We saw a lot of the countryside as they were trying to avoid the big highways. Mostly we drove on the N340 spanish national road. Lot of olive gardens and mountains were passed while taking photos of the sights and enjoying good company. Many times I had to pop my ears as we were changing altitude rapidly. Justyna suggested that we stop to buy some snacks and find a good place to stop to eat it. I was very happy as I was already quite hungry.

While Justyna was doing the shopping Olgierd told us that he is actually heading all the way to Granada after the night near Valencia. But Justyna doesn't know it yet it's a surprice. So if we would want to, we could find a place to camp near their destination. Sleep the night and hop on their ride again when they leave the next morning. Woohoo what a luck Granada is near Malaga only about 150 km. We could have time to go to Africa after all. If we get the rest of the rides. We talked with Janina that this is really good luck. We will stay the night.

We stopped near a beach with a few palm trees providing cover. Ate baquette with ham and liver patee on it.



We found the campingarea, thanks to the Police.
And it was something awesome. First we didn't see anyone, but noticed a little spring to go swimming. We weren't sure was it somekind of sevagewater, but atleast it was cold.




One woman saw us in our swimming suits and came closer. She was the owner of the campingarea and first took us to the swimming pool they had in there. That was really nice. And the camping cost only 18 euros per night.



We desided to barbecue at the camp that evening and went to search for food from the city, by running ofcourse. Even though it was a small town we had to ask for the people to find a market. Mika wanted to buy some red wine also and make Sangria. It wasn't good to go in the shop hungry. We bought one kilo of meat, vegetables and bread for breakfast. Maybe it would have been cheaper to just go and eat outside.


Not even one of our neighbours spoke english, only spanish, french or catalan, but all of them were really helpfull. The people from the van next to our tent suddenly came to ask us to come to our tent from the nearby bbq. They had set up a light at our camp site, so we were able to see something when it came dark.



They also borrowed us some spices for the barbecue session we were having.
After one bottle of wine we were ready to go sleep.



PS. sorry for being silent but the Wifis weren't good enough to upload our photos. Then when we got the Wifi working Google desided that I am doing something illegal with my blog as it was taken down. Trying to post from different countries and late on the same day from spain is agains the rules? Anyhow it is sorted now so a few posts more coming today! :)

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