St Carles de la Rapita, Spain

22^nd - 25^th October 

Nearly washed away by the barrage of rain overnight we got up early and got on the road finding a quaint tourist town called St Carles de la Rapita.

We drove through lots of rice fields, on our way off the main road, housed on a former river estuary and at the foot of some pretty large mountains capped with very stormy clouds.

There was a small collection of motor homes parked up right near the sea front adjacent to a storm drain and a family of at least ten cats.

parking at St Carles de la Rapita

We embarked on a meander towards the beach - which was flooded and we could see that the storm surge had come right up to where the vans were parked.

a flooded beach after the heavier storms 

We slept so well that we decided to stay for the weekend, going for some long walks along the coast and exploring the tourist town. The sea had washed up lots of sea urchins and molluscs on to the beach to we went for a bit of a scavenge.

Looking back from the end of the harbour

Paul got up very early to take pictures of the sunrise, but got distracted by the local fishermen; vaguely recalling something about what they were catching and how busy the port was at weekends.

before sunrise on the docks

Fisherman at sun rise