We took the wrong turning from Besalú to
L'Estany de Banyoles and ended up driving around the industrial
outskirts of Banyoles itself. We then thought that Banyoles was right
on the lake so then eventually managed to get into town and ran around
trying to find it, we finally asked someone and exasperated got back
in the car to arrive and discover that I'd somehow managed to loose
our road map! Despite that we liked the lake, even if it was all very
'clean'.
23/04/2005 17:41
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L'Estany de Banyoles |
L'Estany de Banyoles |
L'Estany de Banyoles |
L'Estany de Banyoles |
blurry swimmer at L'Estany de Banyoles.
It was a nice time of day. It would have been good to swim too.
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Late arrival at Santa Pau after getting
lost for hours in a tiny track road in the middle of nowhere, partly
due to having lost the map earlier in the day and thus needing to
rely on a less reliable one. It was funny though - after driving an
hour down a dirt track path into the heart of nowhere, passing a hermitage,
we found two new built houses as part of tourisme rural, with some
friendly people who invited us to dinner and led us back out the way
we had come! We liked Santa Pau A LOT. Saturday 23rd April |
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Santa Pau. A stroll around town trying
to decide what the weather will do after a drissley start.
Sunday 24th April 10:50
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Santa Pau. The sun appeared and we decided
to stick to our planned 6 hour walk in the National Park. 24/04/2005
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Santa Pau |
The walk: From Santa Pau on walk number
4, then into the Volca de Santa Margarida
then out towards the Area de Santa Margarida, on route 1, route 15
into the Volca del Croscat, to the Area
de Can Serra, the loop of route 2 into the
Fagenda d'en Jorda, then along route 3 to
Olot.It
took about 6 hours. We wandered around Olot unable to find a nice
place for dinner so we took a cab back to Santa Pau.
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Descending into the crater of the Volcá
de Santa Margarida in the Zona Volcánica de la Garrotxa
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The church in the crater of the Volcá
de Santa Margarida in the Zona Volcánica de la Garrotxa
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After ascent looking down into the crater of the Volcá
de Santa Margarida in the Zona Volcánica de la Garrotxa
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aerial view found online of the volcanoes we visited |
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Marcus and the volcano (the Volcá del Croscat)
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The Volcá del Croscat (Volcano!)
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Look at the amazing volcano pumice!
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Woods in between the Volcá del Croscat
and the Fageda d'en Jordá in the
Zona Volcánica de la Garrotxa
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Fagenda d'en Jorda, the beechwood forest.
Stunningly beautiful in a different way to the rest of the walk. |
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Same photo, different camera!!! |
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One of the only 'picturesque' views we could find of Olot.
It was Sunday and everywhere was closed. Some parts of town felt not
as free and easy as other places we'd been to in Catalunya, with a
lot of teenagers and the odd shady character. But Olot was still good,
just not 'cleaned up'. We walked past a lot of interesting graffiti
and odd parts of town but I felt self-conscious and not comfortable
taking photos,so now just have this pretty pretty photo which misrepresents
Olot a bit. |
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