TARRAGONA - EL BALCON DE MEDITERRANEO

SUNDAY TURNED OUT TO BE ONE OF THE MOST ENJOYABLE DAYS IVE HAD IN A LONG TIME. MILES HAD NEVER SEEN THE SUNRISE FROM THE OCEAN BEFORE SO WE WOKE UP AT 7:30 AND SET OUT FOR THE GREATEST START TO THE DAY. WE ALSO WOKE-UP ALEX WHO WAS HAVING A RUM INDUCED COMER IN HIS VAN AND WE JAMMED IT TO THE AMAZING VIEW POINT. IT WAS REALLY FUN SKATING THROUGH THE STREETS WITH ALL THE CITY SOUND ASLEEP. NOT A SINGLE SOUL INSIGHT, JUST US AND THE LARGE BURNING LONELY SUN.

A SUNSET NEVER DISAPPOINTS, AND THIS ONE WAS SIMPLY BREATH-TAKING AND POWERFUL. I GLANCED AT MILES AT ONE POINT AND HE HAD A SMILE FROM EAR TO EAR, HIGH ON THE FRUITS OF OUR WORLD! WE THEN STUPIDLY DECIDED TO TAKE SOME POWER SLIDE PHOTOS IN THE MAIN STREET AND OF-COURSE THE POLICE TURNED UP. LUCKILY WE SAW THEM COMING BEFORE THEY SPOTTED US SO WE THREW OUR BOARDS UNDER THE BENCH WERE THE OLD MAN STATUE WAS. WE CONTINUED TO WALK AROUND TAKING PHOTOS AND ACTING OBLIVIOUS TO THERE PRESENCE, ALTHOUGH THEY WERE ROLLING PAST US SO SLOW WITH SUSPICION PLAGUING THERE MIND. AS SOON AS THEY HAD PASSED WE GRABBED OUR BOARDS AND JAMMED IT DOWN THE DOWNHILL MAZE-LIKE ALLEY WAYS TO ESCAPE A HEAVY LECTURE AND A VERY POSSIBLE HEAVY FINE.

BY THIS TIME IT WAS 9AM AND WE HIT IT TO A LITTLE BAR FOR A COFFEE. THE BAR WAS GREAT, OLD TARRAGONIAN MEN SINKING THEIR MORNING BEERS AND WATCHING THE FULL DETAILED PORNO THAT WAS BLARING ON THE LARGE FLAT SCREEN TV. ALEX TOLD ONE OF THE OLD MEN THAT WE LIKE THE MOVIE A LOT. HE COMPLAINED TO US SAYING ALTHOUGH HE TOO LIKES IT, ITS GETTING OLD BECAUSE THE BAR MAN HAS BEEN PLAYING THE SAME ONE FOR YEARS . . . WITH A FLICK OF THE SWITCH THE OWNER FLIPPED ON THE MORNING NEWS AND WE DECIDED TO HIT IT TO THE BEACH FOR A MID WINTER SWIM. THE WATER WAS FREEZING BUT BEARABLE. WHAT AN AMAZING START TO WHAT WOULD PAN OUT TO BE AN UNFORGETTABLE DAY!