Andorra- 7 March, 2018 – Five Museums

We woke up this morning to snow covering the mountains. The sky was blue and the sun was shining.

The owner’s well behaved dogs really wanted to join us at breakfast. After breakfast we plotted a route to explore some Andorran museums. Luckily the road had been plowed by the tome we headed down the hill.

We started at the Museum of Electricity. Learning about the history of electricity in Andorra allowed us to learn about the recent history of Andorra.

Next we went to the motorcycle museum.

While the museums were closed for lunch we drove through Andorra to France and back. We saw several very busy and beautiful ski resorts.

From there we went to Casa Cristo Ethnographic Museum. It is a small Andorran home that allowed us to see what ordinary Andorran life was like in the 19th and early 20th century.

Next we visited the Automobile Museum.

And finally we tried to visit the museum in a typical Andorran stately home. We got into the ticket office but were told we couldn’t tour the house without a reservation. So that ended our very busy but extremely fun and interesting day.

Parador de Vic-Sau to Parador de Cordona

From our view overlooking the reservoir of Sau we drove into the town of Vic and parked. We walked around the town in the rain marveling at the beautiful old buildings. This Roman temple was built in the first century AD.

Duke bought some communion wafers left overs from an enclosed convent. He never saw the nun who sold him the bag. It was all done through a evolving serving hatch

Everywhere we looked we saw Catalonian separatist signs.

After a coffee in Vic we drove to Cordona where we are staying in a Parador in a castle high above the town. After checking in we had fun exploring the castle from its base to the top of the tower.

For dinner Duke and I started with a cheeses and nut plate.

We had veal and beef for our main course.

For desert I had strawberry with cheese ice cream and Duke had cottage cheeses with honey.

Roses and the Salvador Dalí house in Port Lligat- 3 March 2018

We are staying in a hotel near Roses, Catalonia that was originally an old farmhouse built in 1582.

Today we drove about thirty miles east to visit the house where Salvador Dali lived for more than forty years. The house is as he left it after his wife died. It is small, quirky and in a beautiful setting on the edge of the Mediterranean.

After enjoying the house and garden we drove into the nearby town of Cadaqués for lunch. The day started overcast but turned sunny. We sat in an outdoor restaurant by the beach and enjoyed our lunch and the scenery while we people watched the Saturday visitors.

Back at our hotel we napped then played bridge until it was time for dinner.

For dinner we went to another great restaurant in Roses recommended by the hotel owner. At Falconera We shared a fig salad, I had a fish stew and Duke had cuttlefish. The prawns and anchovies were local.

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