Blipsnap

Chaiselongue is a hard act to follow :) As we strolled around Sant Feliu de Guixols today, I kept spotting things she'd blipped. And there were balconies everywhere! After I got home I carefully reviewed my 68 photos, decided which one to blip, and then clicked onto Blipfoto to see what chaiselongue had blipped. Oops :) After some consideration I decided to blip this anyway, but use the version without the palm tree!

We had a lovely day. It was warm and sunny, and chaiselongue and Lo Jardinier introduced us to Hell (l'Infern), a lovely restaurant worth going back to Sant Feliu for. It's one of those small, no-choice restaurants where you just eat what they've prepared that day. For starters the waitress brought plate after plate of tapas, including the smoothest, most delicious tapenade I've ever eaten, and a dish of wild mushrooms, all eaten to a background of Cuban jazz. The arroz negro was superb, and we were all offered second helpings. We noticed that the owner was cooking a fresh batch for every table, bringing out individual casseroles each time. With delicious home-made desserts, coffee, and as much wine as we cared to drink, the bill was 12 euros each. A pity no other local blippers could join us today, but if anyone's up for lunch some other time, I'm happy to meet here!

After our leisurely, chatty lunch (first to arrive, among the last to leave), chaiselongue and LoJ headed off for a siesta and we wandered around town a bit more on our way back to the car. We decided not to visit the museum, on the grounds that this would give us an excuse to come back.

On the way home, we happened to pass Grau, an enormous wine superstore on the outskirts of Palafrugell. It's amazing, the size of a large hypermarket. It sells not just local wines (although it has a massive selection of those), but wines from all over the world as well. Among its other delights it has the most bottles of port I've ever seen in one place, ranging from the cheap rubbish you get in France to proper vintage port. So that's our Christmas treat sorted -- a bottle of Taylor's Vargellas :)