We have been looking forward to a day at the beach for ages. The forecast was for hot and sunny weather, but breezy. We were all set for a paddle and a frolic on the beach when we got an email from John through the Parapent Girona list saying ‘how about Sant Pere de Rodes today?’. Oriol agreed, and who are we to argue? Geoff’s got a new glider to fly, I love Sant Pere de Rodes and we could always fly to the beach or go there after flying.

We noticed the breeze as we got closer, but it was only as Geoff was ground handling the wing in the landing field that we really noticed the wind pick up. We all decided it wasn’t worth the drive up and agreed to meet again at 3.30pm, if the wind had dropped. So Oriol went off to kite surf, John went back to work and we got our bucket and spade and went to the sea side!

Once out of the wind (which was howling) it was hot, so we played at being gambas for a while. That’s what the Spanish call British tourists – it means prawns, i.e. always pink. Then we went for a walk round the bay to the port, which is the best place to see fish. We only got to see the really big ones because it was choppy. By 3pm it hadn’t calmed down and the wind seemed NE, so we just stayed in Roses, read our books and chilled out for the day. Bliss.

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