Early departure from hotel (6am) and easy drive through city
to airport. This coastal part of the city
is beautiful – clean and well maintained. Nice parks and flowers. OK flight to Barcelona and we embarked
on our drive to Valderrobres. Nobody at
the airport had ever heard of this place.
Pretty drive along the countryside and winding roads over rolling hills.
In the middle of nowhere Valderrobres
appears. It is very picturesque. This
town of about 2000 inhabitants is situated on two sides of a river. The old
city is on a hill with a Castillo and church on top, and the new part is on a
flatter terrain. We walked to the hilltop, and then back to the new town where
we passed an open gate leading to what looked like a warehouse, but inside were
barrels, bottle and plastic containers with wine. We bought a bottle of local
wine, and the owner told us that his family has been making this wine for a
hundred years. We passed many
restaurants trying to choose one for dinner but they did not open up until 9 or
10 pm. We sat on our terrace and killed the bottle. Then we walked outside and
bumped into Frank, the father of the groom and his family group heading to the
old town. We tagged along with them, and spend a nice evening sitting and
chatting in an outdoor restaurant/bar. In keeping with the local customs. our
tapas dinner wasn’t until about 10:30 pm.
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