Senoras brunettes : those spanish towns on the mediterranean coast where I've been on holiday
Submitted by cramoukji on Thu, 09/22/2005 - 03:04
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- Rosas Nice and quiet, very family-friendly tourist town situated on the Costa Brava very near the french border... therefore not very weather-friendly once the summer is fizzling out.
- Lloret de Mar Very mixed atmosphere with a typical old town and narrow streets with laundry hanging from window to window and local merchants and a seafront filled with outrageous hotels and discotheques... will be spending seven nights there as a kind of surrogate honeymoon with my bay-bee in early october... (sorry for those intimate details).
- Platja de Aro Very tourist-driven spot on the Costa Brava further south from Lloret... apart from hotels and the usual tourist shops and restaurants, there's not too much to do there... and the beach is made of big pebbles, not sand... but the inner land is full of trekking possibilities.
- Tarragona Middle-sized city not too far from the "big B", this one is a bit inside the land and not located right on the shore... It's therefore not chock-full of tourists and living at a very typical spanish pace.
- Barcelona Arguably one of the five cities you need to see before dying (now there's an idea for a Listology list!!)... from La Sagrada Familia to La Rambla Maxima to the Gaudi buildings and the Parc Guell and the Haven from which Colombus sailed off to his Fate, there's somethinbg for everyone... The "big B" is a busy city with both day life and night life comparing with any in the world.
- Salou Situated on the Costa Dorada, this cute little town is a favorite among the belgian tourists... the seafront walk with the palm trees and the light-show fountains is extremely attractive at night... specifically family-friendly, the night life here is fine and not too noisy.
- Benidorm More down south, on the Costa Blanca, this tourist town was a big bore for me because it's the all-time favourite of Belgians and it's no fun being on holiday and walking into people from your town or even borough at every corner... Needless to say, I only went there once.
- Calpe The most southward we went in Spain when I used to go on holiday with my parents as a kid... my memories of this place are nice... the weather was especially warm and the beaches were of white sand... and the big tourist attraction is a big rock you can climb that goes halfway into the sea from the beach.
