Palariac y Pépe the Smart Car

We left Barcelona at 10 am from the Barcelona airport. If you are ever in Barcelona you should use Rabbit Bike to get to the airport because it only costs €5/person and they take you in a car. They also rent bikes for €10 euros for 24 hours. Anyway, we had mapped out a route to get to Palariac, which is on Google Maps suprisingly. They even have street views of Palariac. Our plan was a route along the Spanish Mediterranean coast better known as the Costa Brava. The trips took about 7 hours compared to 4 hours on the highway, but it was worth it. We completed the journey in a Smart Car, which we named Pépe. I was worried that I wouldn´t be able to fit inside, but it was suprisingly spacious inside and I still had about 3 inches of head clearance even though I´m 6´3¨. It also had a good amount of power and could get maintain 75 mph on the freeway. I honestly think if I ever buy a car, I´ll buy a Smart Car, because it gets crazy good gas mileage and is comfortable. We drove 200 km from Perpignan to Barcelona and used 2.5 gallons of gas, roughly 48 miles per gallon. That is with the car fully loaded with two passengers and luggage. You could also drive straight into parallel parking spots, which would be great for San Francisco. 

I drove the entire way except for entering and leaving the rental car place because the reservation was in Sandra´s name. 

Along the Costa Brava, we had to stop and take photos.

Here´s a video of the drive along the Costa Brava. Pretty much constant turns, twisting, dipping, bobbing, and climbing. 

We also found the Salvador Dali musuem in Figueres. We didn´t go in because it was swamped with tourists, but we took a few pictures.

Throughout Spain I have been confused at the selection of merchandise at tourists shops. Below are the following:
1) One Monster engergy drink t-shirt
2) One Che Guevara t-shirt. Che was Argentinean, but most famous in Cuba. So... I guess because he speaks Spanish, he should be in Spain tourists shops as well.
3) One stack of Mexican sombreros. My best guess here is the common language of Spanish between Mexico and Spain.
4) One 69 t-shirt. I won´t speculate on this one.

We stopped on our way to Palariac and got the Scroggs the Spanish equivalent of Champaigne known as Cava.

 En route to Palariac...

 The first night we had dinner with Peter and Sybil and had quite a bit of wine. I had never been one on one with them before, so it was awesome to have a few hours to chat. The next day, we made our compulsory trip to the watering holes. This first one was Duiacc. They have gotten smarter, because know they charge €4 euros for parking. The place is also more discovered because I heard an English family there. The majority were still French of course. What could be better than Nutella and a bagette at a swimming hole in the south of France?

The last night Iggy came for dinner and we had a night tour of Palariac. But, we only had two nights in Palariac. So we packed up and left on Wednesday morning at 10 am for our drive back to Barcelona and flight to Granada. Au revoir Palariac.