September 2015

Mataro - another choice for a beach getaway out of Barcelona

Sep 23, 2015

It is true that we have never stayed there overnight, always or we were going to any other place and stayed for a few hours on the beach, or another times we went early in the morning and got back to Barcelona late in the evening. So, we do not have experienced our family stay for more that 1 day on this beach. Even though, I would highly recommend this place for more than 1 day, as the beach is clean, the water is cristaline and you have an expectacular view of the sunshine on the sea with a lot of ships and yachts enjoying the sail.

Water is little bit colder than in Barcelona, but as children love water, they are not afraid of it´s coldness.

I really enjoy less crowded beaches as there is easier to stay with a kid, you are not worried if he is gone further than few meters away from your place, and your kid will really appreciate your kindness to give him more freedom to investigate the beach and water. Apart of that, on this beach we found precious fish shells.

Getaway to L´Ampolla

Sep 22, 2015

Last weekend we had a very last minute getaway, as we were invited to stay in a house of one of my husband´s friends in a small village near L´Ampolla, this village is considered a part of this town, as I even don´t really know it´s name. L´Ampolla it is about 150km away from Barcelona and as well it is within Catalunya. We went there on Saturday and come back on Sunday...huuh... we got tired. But, you know, it was worth doing this getaway. As, since I live in Spain I have never had such an experience. What I mean? The experience to be so far from crowds and a lot of cars. We enjoyed the sounds of the waves of the sea, we have listened grasshoppers and even we have enjoyed the pure silence of this village. Damian was running there and forth in the late evening as the weather was fantastic, not hot enough neither cold enough, just great to take a walk through the village and see very Spanish townhouses.

As well on this village we(I) have seen for the first time olive gardes, I was happy as a kid, as I have never seen in one place so many olive trees.

On Sunday we left this quiet place and went to L´Ampolla, and more to this to the Natural Park of Ebro (Parque Natural de l´Ebro), another quiet place, by the way, where apart of the silence we could enjoy the sounds of different birds. We walked almost 4km to get to the place where Ebro spills into the sea, there we have seen flamingos, a lot of them, and very near of us. These weren´t pink, were white, but it was wonderful to see all these beauties.

Even if we were very tired of this getaway, I had finally find a place where to look for the silence.

Festa al cel 2015 (Air show)

Sep 21, 2015

Huuuh... time flies I don´t know were. Almost one month I haven´t written any post... I feel really sorry for this... too many things happened, a lot of getaways, I will post about them later on other posts... I promise.

Yesterday, we went to a very known air show in Mataro (a town like 30 km away from Barcelona), called ¨Festa al Cel¨, an air show that take place once a year or at the beach of Mataro or at any beach in Barcelona, and it is amazing. Every year we go to see this show, the only thing that last 2 years it was raining and the show lost of its amazingness :).

Damian likes all about the planes, how they fly and even he enjoyed every flight we had, so this show was perfect for him. We discussed about this show previous days, we wanted him to prepare for this air show, and he was very excited about this idea. He even showed us how planes fly and so on. But, once we were there, he got bored, I don´t know why. Maybe because there were too crowded, or too hot or too sunny. As he looked after planes just first few minutes, then we had to pay him attention to every plane that had passed. Even though, there were a great weather, and we decided to lay on the beach and enjoy not only the airshow, but as well sun and beach.