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We\u2019re sad.\u00a0 The Europe part of the adventure is ending, but we will be back for sure.\u00a0 We\u2019re also a little tired.\u00a0 Trekking from place to place every week or two takes a toll.\u00a0 Which is why our last stop here in Sitges is a good way to decompress.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not a household name like Madrid or Lisbon so unless you are a local Barcelonan, you may not have ever heard of this place.\u00a0 Sitges is a picturesque upscale seaside resort that is basically a suburb of Barcelona, about 30 minutes away.\u00a0 Day tripper locals, tourists, great weather, beaches, million-dollar homes, and lots of trinkets.\u00a0 We are staying in one of those million dollar places a little way up the hill just outside of town center.\u00a0 It\u2019s a 20- minute walk to the nearest beach or 25 to town.\u00a0 Not far, and there\u2019s a bus stop right outside the gate if we want to ride instead of walk.\u00a0 But really, we\u2019re not that motivated.\u00a0 We have a large private terrace with a swimming pool.<\/p>\n
So, we\u2019ve been sorta hanging out here.\u00a0 From what we\u2019ve seen so far, the beaches in Tarragona are bigger and less crowded but we really haven\u2019t done any exploring.\u00a0 We will need to get more groceries over the next few days, so we will wander through old town and look at souvenirs.\u00a0 No relics here or even an old cathedral and if you google the top things to do in Sitges, the list will be restaurants, bars, beaches, a fish market at the docks, one museum, a small palace, the Baccardi rum joint, and a carnival with this description:<\/p>\n Carnaval in Sitges is a sparkly week-long booze-soaked riot, complete with masked balls and capped by extravagant gay parades held on the Sunday and Tuesday, featuring flamboyantly dressed drag queens, giant sound systems and a wild all-night party with bars staying open until dawn.<\/em><\/p>\n So, sitting by the pool has some appeal. \u00a0Besides, upscale usually equates to more expensive. \u00a0It also will give us some time to reflect on what we\u2019ve done as well as think about what we will be doing next.\u00a0 Essentially, we are coming home, but not really.\u00a0 What is home anymore?\u00a0 Something to figure out that\u2019s for sure, but in the short term, we have things planned out through to the end of next January which includes a 2-month stint in Guatemala.\u00a0 I hear there are some great deals, especially around Volc\u00e1n de Fuego.<\/p>\n We\u2019re sad.\u00a0 The Europe part of the adventure is ending, but we will be back for sure.\u00a0 We\u2019re also a little tired.\u00a0 Trekking from place to place every week or two takes a toll.\u00a0 Which is why our last stop here in Sitges is a good way to decompress. It\u2019s not a household name like Madrid or Lisbon so unless you are a local Barcelonan, you may not have ever heard of this place.\u00a0 Sitges is a picturesque upscale seaside resort that is basically a suburb of Barcelona, about 30 minutes away.\u00a0 Day tripper locals, tourists, great weather, beaches, million-dollar homes, and lots of trinkets.\u00a0 We are staying in one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sitges-10copysmall-1024x683.jpg\")
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