Morella Spain

Morella is renown for its Castle seen from miles high above the town on a hill. The landscape

views are spectacular as one can see for miles. The old town has many charming narrow medieval streets and there are some magnificent food shops with delicacies such as Truffles, cheeses, honey and meats. We found a lovely restaurant and Cocteleria, Vinatea  where "Fifty Pound Gin" was followed by a wonderful lunch. "Fifty Pounds" Gin takes its name from one of the darkest times in Britain’s past and one of the most controversial in the history of Gin. When Dutch-born William of Orange took the English throne in 1688, England unwittingly (and unintentionally) began its descent into one of the first recorded drug epidemics – with Gin at the heart of it. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Tarragona

It had rained very heavily in the afternoon and we wondered if we had made the right decision to venture to Tarragona. It started to rain and the restaurant we had planned to have dinner had closed so there was only one thing we could do and that was shelter from the rain in a street cafe below the cathedral and look up the best place to spend the evening. The Cathedral of Tarragona is a Roman Catholic church and it was located in a site previously occupied by a Roman temple dating to the time of Tiberius, a Visigothic cathedral and a Moorish mosque, it was declared a national monument in 1905. What better setting was there to try a local Sangria and take shelter.  We eventually selected two possible restaurants only to find  "A Quintin" open and not one of us were disappointed!