Day 32 - Argamasilla de Alba to La Móra (543kms)
A long day driving through mostly flat terrain, and we seemed to pass through lots of vineyards and olive tree farms. This type of terrain was more how I imagined the Spanish countryside to be, than what we have experienced so far.
Not much to tell, except that we decided to stop about 100 kilometers short of Barcelona, outside the city of Tarragona. We have read that it contains some interesting Roman ruins and its history dates back to the 5th century BC. But more on that to come.
We planned on staying in a beachside caravan park outside of Tarragona, but the first one we visited was closed for the season and reports in the Park4Night app were not good when it came to parking in the beach carpark overnight. So we ventured a little further along the coast toward Barcelona and the seaside town of La Mora. La Mora was home to a beautiful resort style caravan park - which was also closing for the season next week, but after much angst about being asked for €40 for one night, we decided to pay for 2 nights on special rate of €44. This would allow us to stay the night and leave the van in the park the following day for as long as we liked, even if we did decide to continue to Barcelona the following day.
We setup on a site only one row back from the beach and when we investigated all the park had to offer, we started to understand why the place was so expensive. It really was a destination in itself, particularly for those coming from the cooler more northern European countries. The park has a massive resort style swimming pool - complete with an island and bridges, a tennis court, a basketball court, kids club, a restaurant and bar, mini-supermarket, and all this right on quite a pretty beach. Of course the girls went straight to the beach for a swim after we discovered that the pool closed at the ridiculous time of 6:00pm - much to Madi's disappointment.
Not much to tell, except that we decided to stop about 100 kilometers short of Barcelona, outside the city of Tarragona. We have read that it contains some interesting Roman ruins and its history dates back to the 5th century BC. But more on that to come.
We planned on staying in a beachside caravan park outside of Tarragona, but the first one we visited was closed for the season and reports in the Park4Night app were not good when it came to parking in the beach carpark overnight. So we ventured a little further along the coast toward Barcelona and the seaside town of La Mora. La Mora was home to a beautiful resort style caravan park - which was also closing for the season next week, but after much angst about being asked for €40 for one night, we decided to pay for 2 nights on special rate of €44. This would allow us to stay the night and leave the van in the park the following day for as long as we liked, even if we did decide to continue to Barcelona the following day.
We setup on a site only one row back from the beach and when we investigated all the park had to offer, we started to understand why the place was so expensive. It really was a destination in itself, particularly for those coming from the cooler more northern European countries. The park has a massive resort style swimming pool - complete with an island and bridges, a tennis court, a basketball court, kids club, a restaurant and bar, mini-supermarket, and all this right on quite a pretty beach. Of course the girls went straight to the beach for a swim after we discovered that the pool closed at the ridiculous time of 6:00pm - much to Madi's disappointment.
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