Spain Road Trip, Day 2

After a pleasant breakfast in our impromptu La Molina chalet, we hit the road and promptly passed our intended hotel in Collada de Toses in about 5 minutes. The scenery in the mountains was stunning, and the driving was typical windy, side-of-the-mountain stuff, but today, the driving was all downhill to from the mountains to the sea.

Our first stop was the town of Besalu and its famed medieval Bridge.

The fortified bridge in Besalu

We finally hit the coast in Roses, which is on a stunning stretch of coastline north of Barcelona called Costa Brava. We dropped our stuff off at the hotel, then headed to the fishing village and seaside resort of Cadaques.

Cadaques

We walked around the coast and among the fancy seaside houses of Cadaques, eventually ending up at Port Ligat. Seeing as we were on the sea, we decided this might be a good place to have our paella fix for spain. Unfortunately, paella is not really a Catalan dish, and the paella left me much worse for wear. Heavy with paella, we headed back to the very affordable Hostel Rom for the night.