YAY INTERNET!

I´ve finally found a place with internet so I can tell you where I´ve been and what I´ve been up to for the last couple of days :)

Well, I think I last dropped a quick note about getting to Tossa de Mar. Which is a beautiful city. I could have spent another couple days there, and may still, depending. The waves and water combined with the mountains and castle and the best Sangria in the world make for one romantic evening spent with a bunch of women :) We went up to the cliffs where the castle sits, to a small cove where there´s a round stone table. With us we brought two bottles of champagne, a box of strawberry juice, and some plastic cups. And we sat and drank strawberry chapagne while watching the sun set over the town, silouetting the old churches and clay tile roofs - listening to the waves crash into the jagged rocks below. joe - you have to come here. With me. We deserve a romantic moment after this month!

Right now I´m in Girona. It´s gorgeous! There´s a river running straight through town, and really neat old churches, even some Roman ruins. I think I may spend more than one day here. I had to stop and pick up three more rolls of film once I got here, because I know i¨ll go thru them.

Yesterday I was in Cadaques. It´s a small fishing village where Dali spent about 40 years of his life. He had a house there, which I toured, but the town is so out of the way we have to take a 2 1-2 hour bus trip just to get there. Jenny and her mom and I had a hotel, but then the hotel found out that there were 3 of us, and we were only paying for 2, so I had to go get a hostel room. Which was fine, because my room was on the very top floor, overlooking the entire city and the mountains. It was just the perfect way to wind down from traveling. The town was really very crowded for as small as it was, and although it was very quaint, I´m happy to be in a city that can manage the population.

Cadaques, like Tossa, sits right on Costa Brava, but is farther north. It has small beaches, but nothing compared to Tossa, as it´s a fishing community, rather than a beach haven. The streets are small and winding, made out of cobble stone. The buildings are white with bright blue or green shutters, and they´re connected by arching walkways laced with bright flowers. it´s picture perfect. From my window last night I could see the town lit up, each window glowing with bits of gold light, and the mountains melted into the sky like strange clouds. The mountains - they are incredible! Not just because of their size, but because each one, from bottom to top, is striped with rows and rows of stacked slate stone, creating narrow terraces, giving the mountains a corn-rowed look. It really is just incredible.

Tossa, unlike Cadaques, doesn´t have the cool corn-rowed mountains, but it has the most amazing beaches. The cliffs rise up like Big Sur (from what I´ve seen in the commercials anyway)- there really is a lot in my own country that I need to see too. But the beaches at Tossa- they are gorgeous. The sand is soft, and the bottom of the ocean is lined with smooth stones, like lake superior. We were sitting on the beach, surrounded by these rock facades, and all I could do was stare at the sand. The waves would come up, smooth the surface of teh sand, and retreat, leaving freckles of water that shone like millions of tiny diamonds, sprinkled about. It was amazing. Just amazing. I love the beach :)

I haven´t seen much of Girona - but I¨m sure there´s a web page (let me go check, hold on)www.ajunctment.gi I think that´s it. Otherwise, just hop on Google and type in Girona - you´ll see the town I´m hanging out in for the next couple days. After that, I´m not sure. I´m goign to check and see how possible it is to get into France on a budget, and then maybe Italy, but if not, I´ll just stick around Spain. There´s a lot to see here. I´m going to hopefully go title those pictures now :) Take care all.