Tarragona

After two trains, one bus, one taxi and one plane, I’ve arrived in Tarragona. 

Another day, another Roman structure. This amphitheater, which could hold 15,000 people, is from the second century A.D., so not as old as yesterday’s lighthouse, but the owners clearly haven’t kept the property up nearly as well. Also unlike the lighthouse, a lot of people died here, either in gladiator contests or as victims of whichever conquerors happened to be taking over Spain at any given time. There was also an entire church built over it at one point. But now it’s a UNESCO world heritage site.

Even though I was at an ocean this morning and this evening, they were two different oceans (technically an ocean and a sea), and the evening one was so much warmer that as soon as I checked into my crappy 2-star hotel I walked down to the beach and went into the water.

Then I walked around town for a while and at 9:00 realized that all I’d consumed all day was a bag of peanuts and three cups of coffee, so I stopped all other activities, ate some food and am now calling it a day.