With our cool new car which is black however still a 5 door (hatchback) and now a we decided to head north to check out the beach towns north of Barcelona in the Cataluña area of Spain. So, using the application that has gotten us around Spain for this last month, off we go with Google Maps again! First, I had an argument with it (which I did not win) as we wanted to take the lower road up the coast and take the highway back. I THOUGHT I had set it correctly and put it down on the shelf below the display area on the car and then all of a sudden I heard “There is a better route do you want to take it?” Now we have run into this prompt previously and if you do not answer it will NOT change your route. So we continued along… All of a sudden I realized we were on the highway! That darn app had changed our driving directions! Luckily I figured it out at a point where we could easily get back down to the coast! So much for knitting on this trip – I had to babysit the app as it kept trying to send us on the highway every time we got to a road that could return us up to the highway.
Here is what our journey was. We cruised through several towns on our way to Matero and then onto Lloret del Mar (hard to see on map). That was fascinating to see the buildings, the people and a glimpse of the beaches. From there, which you can see a bunch of white dots on the road (just to the right of the driving time) – those are all little towns – about 75% of them are resort towns which you need permission to access – there is a gate to enter them and they are usually down a hill. What I could not get to display below is we did not go from Tossa de Mar UP to the highway and down to Sant Feliu dee Guixios – we actually drove the road that exists between the two places. It was VERY twisty – sort of like the Crowsnest from Hope to Osoyoos. We stopped there for lunch (well Andrew had lunch – they refused to feed me due to cross contamination – I had a backup sandwich in the car) and we walked around on the beach as you will see. Then we moved onto Palamos and Palafrugell – which there is a path to walk between the two towns. From there we drove, thanks to Google Maps they sent us again down small roads, to Pertallada, which is a walled city and highly recommended to visit before we had to backtrack a bit (yup, small roads again thanks to Google! to get to the highway. See all these adventures below!
