Poor wifi at our hotel in Sitges so here’s our end-of-tour catch up!
Best laid bus plans…
We left Sitges for a 30 minute ride to the town of Terragona. Here you can see substantial remnants of the old Roman city including a smaller version of the Roman Colosseum, which seats 10,000 so it’s really not that small at all! Unlike the one in Rome, this one site a mere few meters from the shore of the Mediterranean. It’s impressive that so much of the structure remains considering the usual effects of erosion.
After a hot march around the city, we made our way to the Cathedral of Terragona where we had a very intimate sing with only a few people watching. It was more an experience for ourselves than a performance. We also learned that we all finally have “El Rossinyol” memorized since we forgot to bring out binders with us!
We let the girls have lunch on their own and a chance to poke around the small shops. While waiting for the bus to come back, we all indulged in some life-changing gelato 🙂
We drove exactly 2 minutes before arriving at our concert venue for that night. The Rovira i Virgili University. On the bottom floor of a building of classrooms, it was one of the more straight forward venues we’ve been in so far, but the girls sounded truly great in the different acoustics. They were called out for an encore! First one this trip!
Dinner on a rooftop garden literally ended in fireworks. The Catalans celebrate St. John on June 30 and so at 10:30pm, fireworks started going off over our heads. I gave the girls “permission to run” so they could get down to the square for a clearer view. Unfortunately, so did everyone else in Terragona and what we thought would be an easy bus meet-up, ended up into a almost hour-long circuitous hunt for the bus. After getting stuck in the crowds we found our way back up the hill and onto our bus home.
The girls are loving Catalonia and all of it’s rich history and culture.
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