Our apartment is situated right at the end of the bay with Santa Margarita harbour wall at the end. It's a pretty good spot for fish spotting as we found out this morning. Very relaxing just floating around, face in the water, watching the fish life. You actually get up fairly close with them if you just float - they soon move when you start swimming.
This morning wasn't as sunny as yesterday. When we came out of the sea there was a terrific rumble of thunder and grey clouds! Luckily the clouds went away and no more rumbles.
With car parking still at a premium we walked along to check out a few things with our rental agent but he was closed. Odd we thought but maybe because it's the start of low season they may be taking a Monday off as well as Sunday. Anyway we headed on further up the road to Mercadona our favourite supermarket only to find that closed as well! OK definitely odd! But hey ho we just walked further to Lidl and got the veggies, eggs and milk we needed.
Then walking back we realised that other offices and shops were closed so there was definitely a reason. Good old Google came into play and we found out that it's National Day of Catalonia. A day to celebrate the fall of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714 and the subsequent loss of Catalan institutions and laws. We just can't believe that we've never twigged that there's such a day. We knew about National Day of Spain on 12 October but seemed to have overlooked this one.
Well back for lunch, siesta, a bit of reading outside and a chilled evening. From the balcony we've spotted a few empty parking spaces so there could be a mass exodus of bank holiday weekend visitors - fingers crossed! We may risk moving Rolo tomorrow.
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