A trip around the Ports de Beseit

This was meant to be a trip across the Ports de Beseit, (the National Park and mountain range between us and the Mediterranean). However, as we were not able to find the road which crossed the mountains (which was indicated on the map but was not "visible" on the GPS), we turned back having gone up the mountains as far as the road would take us and took the road around instead. Next time we shall try it from the other direction!

We had lunch in a small village called Poblo de Benifasà and while we were waiting for the restaurant to open at 13:30 we visited the cemetery.

Lunch was superb as usual then in the afternoon we headed into the mountains looking down on the Monestir de Benifasà which seems to be a "working" monastery only open to the public on Thursdays between 13:00 - 15:00, so you've got to be quick (and not hungry!)

After failing to find the road across the mountains we came back down and took the road around instead which was very scenic...

(You can tell this is me because that's my watch!)

...passing by the Pantano d'Ulldecona or the reservoir of a nearby town, in this case Ulldecona.

We travelled through 3 different autonomous regions and 3 different provinces of the country on this route: from Aragón, (Teruel) to Comunidad Valenciana, (Castellón) to Cataluña, (Tarragona) then back into Aragón, (Teruel). As for the language, Castilian, castellano, (Spanish), is only spoken in one of them with Catalan being the regional language of the other two.

Fantastic scenery - there's something very Scottish about this area, the only difference being the weather.