Denouement Diaries

Essentially the ramblings of two adults that probably require adult supervision.

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Anyway, let's get into it:

Slow day.
We couldn’t be bothered doing much.
Breakfast at the hotel.
Then slowly in to Madrid.
But the weather was rubbish so we weren’t particularly motivated to do a bunch of walking around the sights.
Eventually found a park, which was a bit difficult.
Also traffic is proper tomato in the centre of town…
Then walked towards the Prado museum to be faced with an enormous line outside in the wet and wind.
Passed on that.
Went and had some lunch and coffees in a little cafe in the streets.
Then wandered the Botanical Garden adjacent to the Prado.
After hiding from the rain for a bit.
Wandered the streets.
Back out to the burbs for Casey’s next pole class.
Got rained on on the walk back.
Ordered some Uber Eats for dinner.

Driving day.
The outskirts of Madrid are quite unimpressive - like to the point of poverty.
The drive from Madrid to Barcelona has you passing literally abandoned facilities and ?small towns.
I think Spain is a bit poor.
Yep, looked it up, unemployment is about 10-12 percent. They doing their best.
Anyway in a fit of genius we had booked a boat in a marina to sleep in as a ‘fancy AirBnB’.
It was shit.
Did misjudge what that would all mean.
Immediately booked a cheap hotel on the outskirts of Barcelona.
Drove to said hotel.
Grabbed some Maccas for dinner.
Watching ‘Better Call Saul’.

Easy breakfast at the hotel.
Casey had a pole workshop for a few hours in the city while I wandered around, down La Rambla, and hit up some cafes.
Then back to Find Casey when she was finished and we headed over to La Pedrera.
Gaudi’s amazing apartment building. We had tickets so we did the tour.
Is incredible.
Would recommend.
Then over to La Sagrada Familia for our booked ticket time.
Is also amazing.
By far the best cathedral in Europe.
Unique.
Then walked/took a taxi back to where we parked the car.
May have grabbed some Nuggets for dinner…

Breakfast at the hotel.
Then checked out and rolled down in to the ‘Town/Capital’ of Andorra - Andorra La Vella - just….Andorra……in the valley.
Casey had to get some makeup so we wandered along the Main Street.
Had a couple of coffees in the sun.
Then back to the car to start the big drive.
A bit slow getting out of Andorra - all mountain roads and tunnels.
But then when you get in to France and down off the mountains, the French highways pick up again and they are smooth and fast.
Got some nuggets for the journey.
Stopped a couple of times for snacks.
Then the next slow part was the windy scrub roads into the back of Saint Tropez in the dark.
Not fun with no street lights.
Found our hotel. Nice place.
Got some food delivered.
Watched ‘Rick and Morty’.
Bed.

Miserable cold wet day.
Had the hotel breakfast.
Then drove down in to the town.
Cold and wet.
Wandered around the old town - which is very nice, but would be nicer in the sun.
Wandered along the harbour.
Went to a cafe, was seated, looked at the menu, saw that a coke cost 11 Euros, promptly stood up and left.
I think that is just delusional…
At this point I was just annoyed - Saint Tropez just seemed like ‘late stage popular’ - just full of snobby people wearing Gucci walking past shops that sell Luis Vuitton… I dunno, if a town is going to ‘live by the sword of snobbery….it will die by the sword of snobbery’….?
I mean it became Famous in the 60s and was just a fishing village before that!
Back to the hotel to get our of the rain.
Read books.
Vegetated.
In the evening we drove down to one of the other nearby harbours to find something to eat.
Stumbled upon a weird cafe that was half closed and half full of a clown cast of local characters, and a cute dog.
Had some coffees.
Grabbed a McFlurry on the way back to the hotel.

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