First weekend getaway from Barca..... Lifez been this....freak out...freak out and keep freaking out.... (atleast till now).....

Now that life is pretty much settled at Barca, we thought we should start exploring Europe and what better place to start than Barca. The first weekend here (Oct 7 n 8) was meant to be a seaside outing alongside of a visit to a couple of cathedrals around Barca. Dharini had left to France and so it was for the rest of us to getaway this weekend.

On Saturday, we decided to visit "Tossa-de-mara", a hot tourist destination which hosts a old fort and two enchanting beaches and this place an hour's drive from here. We walked around an old and dilapidated fort clicking our cameras all the way. Better things were to follow.

Deciding against dipping into the waters of the main beach, we took a boat cruise from the main beach to reach another smaller, nevertheless more serene beach. Along the way, the boat sneaked into few caves that were carved out of the behemoth rocks and it was sight to behold. The boat we went in had a glass bottom and we could see lots of coral and small fishes as we cruised along. The destination of this ride was the wonderful beach with its not-so-crowded sands.

Pari decided to stretch himself on the sands with the weather aiding his cause as he listened to his iPod. Rohit, Saurabh, Tarun and I decided to get a feel of the water, which was too tempting to resist. Lying in the cool crystal clear waters with the sun shining bright was heavens down to earth. We dragged ourselves out of water after around 2 hours of fun in the blue waters.

Coming back home, we had little energy for something more and all we could do was to hog and crash into our beds.

Sunday morning, we were up early to catch a train to "Girona", 1.5 hours by train. This city is quite old and has retained most of its antiquity thru its buildings. There are two monumental cathedrals, one of them dating back to 1733. We also visited a church and couple of museums and it was a good outing. One museum hosted the memorabilia that brought out the evolution of modern day cinema and it was an interesting sojourn along the memory lane.

Getting back home, Pari and Tarun cooked some wonderfully spicy Indian curry and it was a perfect end to our weekend revelry.

It's time for Euro-scan. We plan to go around Europe in the days to come and I am all excited about the upcoming prospects of visiting Europe's name-to-fame places.

For the fotos of this weekend, click here.

So long...........  ¶ Tuesday, October 10, 2006