Flags over Luna Park. I don’t know what was up with me that day. It was an amusement park that we took the girls to, and I got exactly zero pictures of anything fun. Well, here’s Mary & Meg at the attached bar/café, but, seriously. They had European whack-a-mole and skee-ball, and the girls were running around having a great time and hitting us up for a few more Euros…
There was a sudden intense downpour which cleared the air, and somehow resulted in another take-out chicken dinner, yum.
Flowered bushes at the parking spot
Fink Store. I don’t really speak European, but I’m willing to take a stab at the general meaning of things.
Petrocat—on the road to L’Estartit
Glass-bottomed boat
From the boat
Mary sails the wine-dark sea
Odd clamlike things under water
Those blurry black spots might be small fish
This is what the above-the-surface world looked like to my camera with its white-balance still set to underwater.
Port de L’Estartit
Clouds
Weather coming in
Dang. Forgot camera all day long. Maybe Meg will send me some pix. The Greek and Roman ruins were quite spectacular. A beautiful botanical garden was interspersed with the forum and the agora and the partially restored mosaics and everything.
On the road to Sant Marti.
Ruins of Empúries
“The ruins of the Greek and Roman city of Empúries are near to the summer resort of l'Escala. Three different civilizations settled here, the Indigetes, the Greeks and the Romans. It is the only Greek city west of Italy that can be seen more or less as it used to be due to the fact that it has been excavated intensively. Part of the immense sea-wall of the old Greek port can still be seen. The remains of the Greco-Roman city cover an area of 40 hectares and are the archaeological site most visited in Catalonia. Its privileged situation made Empúries the gateway chosen by the Greeks to the peninsula as well as witness of the arrival of the Olympic flame for the Games in Barcelona 1992.”
Photo & text by Javier Alvarez
Djeneba on her way to the beach
Check out the whimsical tortoise sculpture on somebody’s wall.
The beach at L’Escala
