Aiming for the Delta de L'Ebre which sticks out of the coastline south of Tarragona. Jc has found an Aire right out near the tip area which is located in rice growing and flamingo breeding wetlands. Jane Tom Tom suspiciously asks if we want to avoid the route of unpaved roads and when I answer YES she tell me there is no other route. Hmmm. Maybe she is out of date and they have resurfaced the roads. Actually no, she is right when approaching from the north. She took us through miles of lumpy, bumpy roads before we reached the Aire which was surrounded by rice fields and swampy water. Hold it Gybo. I have never seen a Great white Egret ( impressed?) before but there were hundreds in these fields with herons and all sorts of other birds which I haven't a clue about. They seemed to be ploughing the rice fields using a tractor with enormous net type wheels on them and a mass of all these birds flocked in behind. Unfortunately the sun wasn't out when I took this shot.
The village is minute with one restaurant and a bread shop. The Aire doubles as the school car park as we found out the next morning. We were really looking forward to not having to cook and asked the restaurant called Ida can Machina, if they would be open that evening being a sunday, and they said that if we wanted to come they would open. So at 7.30 we parked Wishstream outside as dogs are not allowed in, and were really surprised to find a very large, attractive restaurant out the back. The menu was really varied and we both had food that we had never had before - real Spanish country cooking. I am not sure I would have my octapus in aioli again, but it was different!
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