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| Heaps of tourists make it up here |
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| Birthday wine |
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| The best duck in the world |
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| Tom's a world class photographer of truffles |
After two days, we packed up and loaded Bella the scooter
with my epic backpack and crawled at 60km /hr to Girona. Girona is a small city
near costa brava, a beautiful coast line with cliffs and forests. The city
itself has a river running through the middle with amazing bridges and
colourful houses. It has awesome tapas and open-air bars. Costa Brava has an
array of perfect beaches and we spent our time swimming in the crystal clear,
icy water of the nude beach(every beach here is nude) and drinking cocktails
overlooking the sunset. Perfect! The landscape here is absolutely fantastic
with winding roads, beautiful old forest and colourful houses. There is a
national park near by and I dragged Tom to climb an amazing volcano(Tom
complaining all the way). It was here we had the most perfect Tapas yet. For
3 euro each we got a beer(San Miguel-
the best), octopus and stuffed mushrooms- delicious!
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| Girona |
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| Lovers brisge |
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| Dragging Tom up a Volcano |
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| A bit lost |
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| Worth it |
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| Reward Spanish Ham and wine bought by Tom |
We loved Girona but we had stayed there too long. The trip
back to Montpelier, France was 9 hours in the rain but luckily we made a few stops:
Stop 1: the museum of Salvador Dali
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| Dali's museum |
Like a castle made out of candy, the building itself is as
much a surrealist artwork as his actual art. There isn’t much of his famous
stuff but you can see how his style developed from realism to surrealism with a
bit of cubism mixed in. It was amazing and I didn’t even mind the 10 million
people.
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| Dali's living room |
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| Dali's feature wall |
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| Dali's piano |
Stop 2: Narbonne, France!! One of Tom’s favourite towns and
for good reason; awesome winding streets, cute French houses and decent hot
chocolate.
Finally after a long and wet journey we got home to
Montpellier. Montpellier is the most amazing city. It is an old, beautiful
labyrinth of winding, narrow streets and staircases which think they are
streets. It has amazing French patisseries, fun bars, is full of students and
has a fantastic vibe. Tom lives with 2 French girls who sort of speak
English(I’ve had to pick up the basics of French quickly), in a little
apartment with a view of trees and churches-beautiful! Everynight someone cooks
something French and I learn a little bit more about how to be cultured(luckily
they’re very patient with me). For example- never cut camembert in slices,
always eat the cheese between dinner and desert and never cut a baguette with a
knife! Every night is a different and cheap party, my favourite being a street
festival where, for 5 euro, you get 3 decent glasses of wine and you get to
keep the glass. There was also an array of any kind of food and with Tom’s new
housemate Vannessa’s help we assemble a delicious feast.
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