Maggie and Margaret have known each other since they were at College together in 1967.
Although Maggie is familiar with many countries in the world, this is the first time she has visited Spain so we wanted to show her what our part of the real Spain was like and this involved touring around locally each day and having lunch in various restaurants.
I collected Maggie from Reus airport on Saturday 13th October and we got back to the village just in time for lunch at the village bar/restaurant.
After lunch it was time to explore the village...
...which is always interesting.
Sunday, we visited the ermita of our neighbouring village, La Fresneda,...
...where you can see our village and our house across the valley.
...then a trip to the Sanctuario de la Virgen de Gracia where renovations have started.
Lunch at the Restaurante Bar Matarraña, one of our favourite restaurants.
Monday a visit to Horta de Sant Joan for lunch at Restaurante Miralles...
...followed by a visit to the Picasso Museum, (which was closed),...
...a visit to the Monastir de San Salvador,...
...a visit to the ermita de San Hipppolyte,...
...the iberican settlement at Calceite...
and the ermita de San Cristóbal on the next hilltop...
...and the Torre Cremada on the way back to our village.
On Tuesday we visited the town of Morella...
...had lunch at the Restaurante Hotel Rey Don Jaime...
...visited the shops in the afternoon...
...and enjoyed a very pleasant walk around the lovely streets.
On Wednesday it was a visit to Alcañiz with lunch at Meseguer...
...followed by coffee at the 12th century Parador...
...and of course a look around inside.
On Thursday we had coffee on the terrace...
...followed by a walk around our Ermita de San Juan with Rocky...
...then a truly memorable lunch at the Hotel Rural Font del Pas at Beceite just after which, it started raining.
Friday the weather was still against us so we had a delightful lunch in Valderrobres at Fonda Angeleta and returned home.
In fact the weather became so bad that in the evening lightning caused a power cut for the entire village so we had our last supper by candlelight! What an experience this week has been!
