It starts with a hunger for the sea… And small fish. Anchovies Sardine Calamari And more anchovies. A sip of Vermut Nero; a coppa de Cava. Next, the sound of a quiet sea lapping the sand. A tramontana wind in the palm trees. Lavender and Immortelles scent the breeze. Hundreds of years whisper across stone and mosaic ruins at Empùries.
That’s how I begin a road trip. A Catalan RoadTrip.
With just a couple of days' break ahead, and before a few months of being laid up on crutches after knee surgery, I made a brief escape from Camont for Spain, Catalunya, and the Costa Brava at L’Escala on the southern curve of the Gulf of Roses.