Sítges on Wednesday

Sea at end of street

Me with the Mediterranean Sea in the background

We waited and waited for a nice clear and warm day to go to the sea side resort town of Sítges, but on Wednesday, we had to finally just do it.  The day turned out to be overcast with some warm, sunny moments, but I was determined to wear shorts, so I did.  We took the noon train for the twenty minute ride along the rocky coast of the Mediterranean, hoping that leaving that late,

we would hit the maximum warmth of the day.  I've wanted to go to Sítges for years and the place was everything I expected.  It's a quaint town with narrow, cobblestone streets that slope down to the water, tourist shops, restaurants, and of course a beautiful beach.

Chris

The only Mediterranean beach I had ever seen was at the Southern end of Spain at Torremolinos, which was flat, had brown sand and green, murky water.  It frankly wasn't too attractive.  But the beaches in Catalonia have rocky out-croppings with stretches of white sandy beaches and blue sea.  It looked like the travel posters that you see of Mediterranean resort towns.  Chris and I had a great time and at the end of the day we headed back to Barcelona to come back to Madrid today.

The charming streets of Sítges

Today (Thursday) was the gorgeous, sunny day that we had been waiting all week for ... I guess you can't have everything!  We hopped on the AVE bullet train and zoom zoom, we were back in Madrid in two hours and forty-five minutes.  I'm going to miss those AVE trains ...