Fri

Not a bad breakfast, typically French but that is fine with us. We did have a scary moment when a French man was poking around with his knife in the toaster! I half expected him to go up in a puff of smoke - stupid man! I was very relieved when he took his toast back to his table!

We checked out and in view of the fact that I did not eat my dinner and 'Basil' saw that. I had half expected him to deduct it from the bill but he didn't say a word. A definite bad review on Trip Advisor!

We left the hotel and went for a lovely walk around the town and castle walls. What a pretty town! All the old houses within the walls are being renovated and some are really pretty. Such pretty towns.

We set off and the weather was very warm and sunny but as we got closer to Spain it became black and cloudy near Perpignan and we knew we were in for some rain.

We crossed the border and our first stop was the service area where we had a lovely lunch, such good food in the Spanish service areas. We set off again and it was not long before we were in torrential rain and could hardly see the road in front of us.

We continued in heavy rain pretty much all the way to Barcelona. Once we were a little way south of Barcelona the clouds cleared and it was sunny and warm once more and by the time we reached Salou it was clear blue skies.

We drove to Enid and Marcel's house and it was lovely to see them after nearly twenty years. We had a cuppa and sat chatting.

We had dinner which Marcel made and it was sooo good. Jon and Marcel said good nigh and left Enid and I to chat and catch up on old times. There was a lot of thunder around and it reminded me so much of my time working in Salou and the storms we used to have which were pretty impressive. Then the fireworks from Port Aventura started and they were really loud. When Enid and Marcel built their house it was on the edge of the town and now the town has grown so much they are in the middle of everything and it can get noisy. They have a parrot who is very chatty and very funny.

I went to bed and had a good sleep but it was very hot.
Weather
Sunny then some!