Day 9 - Tarragona

Today we got up and caught the train to Tarragon which is about an hour and 20 minute ride south of the city along the coast. We visited this great city last year and if you want to read about it you can here.

Once we got there, we headed straight to the cathedral. When we went last year, it was closed for renovations so we were hoping that it would be open this time. We learned that it would be opening for the first time today at 5:00! Luck was on our side. But since it was only 1:00 we decided to have lunch and then start exploring.

On our way we saw a large crowd of people and police all gathered by a street. It turns out that one of the buildings fell in the night and pretty much blocked the entire road. A while later we ran into a police officer who told us that the man who owned the house had died the day before. No one lived there and it had been vacant for a while so there were no injuries or casualties but the timing sure was weird.

 We decided to eat at one of the restaurants to the left of the yellow taxi cab. It was delicious!

I was excited to go back because I really loved Tarragona last year but I wanted to see something different this time. So I researched and found information about the Puente del Diablo which translates to the Devil's Bridge, which you can still visit and is part of the Francoli aqueduct. They esitmate that this bridge dates back to the time of Augustus.

Den had never seen this before so we went in search of the Devil's Bridge. Most of everything that you would want to see in Tarragona is all close to the sea and within walking distance of each other. This was NOT! It is actually a few miles outside of the city so we walked for a ways and then found the right bus and caught a quick ride out of the city. We were surprised when the bus pulled over on the highway and just let us off! But we were right at the entrance to a beautiful park that they created near the aqueduct. After a short little walk, we were not disappointed by what we saw.

Mom and Den climbed to the top!

Once we decided we had seen enough, we walked back out to the highway to wait for the bus.

Bus stop on the side of the highway.

We got on the bus and rode for about 30 minutes until we made it back to the city. And it was a very lively 30 minutes. At one stop, we got to witness a fight between two of the bus riders. When they were exiting the blond girl said something to the girl in the blue shirt and she said loudly "Say that again to my face!" and just went after her. Here are some of the pics I got of the altercation.

Self Portrait on the bus

By now the cathedral would be opening soon so we hiked back up into the old part of the city and entered the cloisters, which then led us to the cathedral.

Pictures from inside the cloisters

Pictures from inside the cathedral.

At this point we were all pretty tired so we headed back down to the train station and called it a night!
Today is a recovery day, just staying close to the flat. We have a couple of fun activites planned this afternoon. Will post about them later tonight!