Escape to Catalonia in the summer and meet her by land, sea and air

The Catalan community has much to offer visitors, from a visit to the most remote enclaves of Costa Brava even the possibility of practicing one of the most demanding sports in recent times, golf, or visit the best preserved Roman ruins Tarragona.

All this can be done in different ways and gives us some ideas about Catalonia by land, sea and air. One option offered is to know the people of the Costa Brava a Cadillac series 62 coupe, 1955 or a Cadillac El Dorado convertible, 1966. Everyone can choose the itinerary to perform possible routes. Both are based on Pineda del Mar but reaches Tossa de Mar through Blanes and Lloret de Mar while a second route concludes in Franciac, where it is possible for a golf pitch & put to play with a traditional Catalan farmhouse in the background. The price of these routes is 520 €, and includes the rental car for three hours, a driver and guide, and a meal for two people.

Sea lovers have the opportunity to take a walk in 4 hours Dufour 40 accompanied by an expert sailor, and where they can take the controls of ship and take a dip in the middle of Mediterranean. The price is 200 € for two people and part from Mataro (Barcelona).

And those who want to simulate the birds get their chance to board helicopter, Through which they can discover the Medieval Tarragona. The planned route flying over the village Altafulla where you can see the Marques de Tamarit castle and continues by the nature of Poblet to contemplate the Prades mountains and the Cistercian Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet. Finally, the air route is 5 hours passing through the Santes Creus declared a national monument. This experience of vertigo can be enjoyed at a price of 1820 € for 5 people.

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Baltic sea cruises: sea journey

Aboard the Crystal Symphony, one of the best equipped ships in the world, embarking on a journey through the Baltic Sea. Three cities: Tallinn, St. Petersburg and Stockholm. And with the spirit of the sailors, outside conventions, schedules and routines acquired

In the distance, the bow of the Crystal Symphony gently flashes in Copenhagen harbor dock white, huge, challenging. It could be an ax standing on the still water, and awaiting the imminent festival of the engines, foam that signal when the journey is about to begin.

The vessel belongs to American shipping Crystal Cruises (which operates in Spain through a World Cruise), considered one of the most sophisticated of the wide range crucerística.

This time the adventure is traveling to the Baltic Sea. And it three cities: Tallinn (Estonia), St. Petersburg (Russia) and Stockholm (Sweden).

From one place to another, miles, nautical miles, a sea becalmed and intimate where you move a galaxy to discover strange, that happens inside a vessel with capacity for 900 passengers where luxury justifies everything, where hedonism without cracks becomes the norm and the traveler looks and make up, reminiscent of Conrad (”we live as we dream, alone”) and is drawn by a vague sense of time without time indoors, by a slight cramp of anxiety when the turbines and a roar begins to think that for seven days must assimilate the spirit of good sailors, the essential rite of seafarers: discard anything that is not used for the journey, all the conventions, schedules, routines the stocks purchased. And then yes, the trip begins at sea.

We lost sight of the luggage at the airport in Copenhagen. But we find in the cabin. We are already on board. In a penthouse with private balcony, living room, dresser, king size bed with Egyptian cotton sheets, flat screen TV and DVD, wine and spirits … And Greg. Greg 24 hours. Continue reading »

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