{"id":18865,"date":"2015-11-20T16:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=18865"},"modified":"2019-04-02T12:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:12:59","slug":"a-pea-souper-to-vic-catalunya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/a-pea-souper-to-vic-catalunya\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pea Souper to Vic, Catalunya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zagan the motorhome&#8217;s about a mile from the centre of Vic, Catalunya, Spain. He&#8217;s in a free aire provided by the town (N41.93493 E2.24048), in among trees overlooking an athletics track and what appears to be a rugby pitch. Do Spaniards play rugby? Or should I ask, &#8220;do Catalans play rugby?&#8221; &#8211; it seems at least half the population here don&#8217;t want to maintain their 5 or 600 hundred year old marriage with Madrid.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18866\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06752.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18866\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18866\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06752-1024x381.jpg\" alt=\"Free motorhome aire, Vic, Catalunya\" width=\"620\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06752-1024x381.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06752-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06752.jpg 1356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free motorhome aire, Vic, Catalunya<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last night a Spanish motorhome joined us for the night. Our memories of four years ago have without doubt blurred somewhat over time, and this time around we&#8217;re travelling some of the richer parts of the country, but neither of us recall seeing so many Spanish-registered motorhomes. Nor could we recall there being so many aires being provided for us &#8211; we&#8217;re feeling very positive about Espagne!<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s fog took a late siesta, clearing the way for a sky-wide view of the northern hemisphere&#8217;s stars before we hit our drop-down sack. Pulling back a curtain this morning revealed such activity to be pointless: the fog was back with a vengeance, pushing up against the van side, hiding the rambla to the front of us.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18877\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06692.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18877\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18877\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06692-1024x609.jpg\" alt=\"Give a grown man some fog and a torch...\" width=\"620\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06692-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06692-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06692.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Give a grown man some fog and a torch&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ju checked the BBC news: turns out today is the 40th anniversary of Franco&#8217;s death. Our last tours have contributed a little nascent historical knowledge to my ale-addled noggin. War films had given me an (albeit massively weighted) view of 20th century German and Italian dictatorships. Similar(ish) situations in Romania, Portugal, Spain, Greece and Yugoslavia went previously undetected in my cranium. Here in Spain events conspired to lead Franco to collapse his own country into civil war just before the rest of Europe mangled itself in what became WW2. &#8216;Civil&#8217; seems a most unsuitable word to describe what gut-wrenching acts compatriots inflict on one another during such terrible times. The <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/winner-winner-chuck-dinner-in-ronda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bridge at Ronda<\/a> comes to mind &#8211; a beautiful, masterpiece of a structure spanning a gorge which saw people being thrown off it. Spain unsurprisingly wants none of this, just how does a country re-unite? From what we&#8217;ve seen (or not seen), the approach here has been to keep quiet about it all &#8211; a &#8216;well, that&#8217;s all in the past now&#8217; kind of approach. With a drawn-out war won, Franco did what he fancied for the following decades until he eventually unwillingly released power by carking it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18870\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06722.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18870\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18870\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06722-1024x458.jpg\" alt=\"40 Years of Peace - Catalans don't seem to be missing Franco...\" width=\"620\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06722-1024x458.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06722-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06722.jpg 1387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">40 Years in Peace &#8211; an ambiguous headline &#8211; although I assume Catalans aren&#8217;t fussed about whether Franco made it into Heaven<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Back to our own wee reality: the freedom we&#8217;re wallowing about in quite quickly becomes absolute normality. We find ourselves referencing what we would be doing if we&#8217;d continued our old careers, in order to regain clarity. &#8220;Probably stuck somewhere on the M42?&#8221; &#8220;Getting up in the dark, rushing about to get dressed&#8221;. &#8220;Frantically pulling together a powerpoint presentation to give to management at 3pm before a 2 hour drive home&#8221;. That kind of stuff. This morning we were literally at a fork in the road: south-east to Barcelona or north-east to the Costa Brava. The choice in itself was enough to slap us about: good choice to get outta the office guys.<\/p>\n<p>While we both loved Barcelona the <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/thwarted-by-a-barcelona-bus-never\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last time we drove there<\/a>, it&#8217;s a big city, which needs a bit of additional effort and money to enjoy safely. Nah, both members of Team Zagan who have the vote went for the same option: Costa Brava it is. Rather than pile all the way to the coast in a single dash though, we programmed our SatNav for Vic: another Catalan town on the way there, and one with a reputed cracking Saturday market. Another bonus: the red road here&#8217;s been upgraded to a full-on freebie motorway since our 5 year old map was printed. And on top of that, Brucie Bonus #2: the perfect black-top was empty: much as we imagined a brand new M1 would have been all those years back.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18880\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06697.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18880\" class=\"wp-image-18880 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06697-1024x451.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06697\" width=\"620\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06697-1024x451.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06697-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06697.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It gets foggy around here apparently.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18881\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18881\" class=\"wp-image-18881 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06700-1024x456.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06700\" width=\"620\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06700-1024x456.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06700-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06700.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montserrat appeared out of the mists to the south, like a giant ink blot testing our sanity.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite the pea-souper, the drive was the easiest we&#8217;ve done in days. In we cruised, finding our spot in the aire alongside a French Hymer. My beard was removed, Ju correctly guessing that &#8220;your hair&#8217;s got long enough now you feel it&#8217;s rebellious enough without the beard&#8221;. Yup. Rebel without a beard I am, again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06707.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18871\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06707-1024x658.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06707\" width=\"620\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06707-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06707-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06707.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18873\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06710-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06710\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06710-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06710-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06710.jpg 1167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a mile walk into the centre of Vic from here, past the town&#8217;s university and cleverly adjacent bus and train stations. Ju sniffed out the tourist info and popped in. I found myself in the tractor-beam of a hard-sell sausage flogger, following the shouting tat-flogger like a zombie into his shop. He was talking Catalan, or was it Hungarian? Whatever it was, the message was the same: &#8220;bring your dog in, no problem, look-no-buy, I do you good price etc etc&#8221;. Cured sausage is a speciality here. He cut off not one but four slices. I ate one: it tasted nothing special. I wondered how to escape. Ah yes: Ju, I&#8217;ll use her as an excuse, genius. &#8220;Dos minutes&#8221;, I hold up two fingers as I tried to drag a wide-eyed meat-sniffing Charlie to the door. Purposefully misinterpreting the seller held up two massive sausages. My turn to go wide-eyed: &#8220;No, no, I&#8217;ll come back&#8221; &#8211; all pretence of Spanish\/Catalan\/whatever language speaking was gone.<\/p>\n<p>Finding Ju in the tourist place opposite I managed a garbled explanation of what was going on before emerging back into the light and back into the tractor beam of the sausage-waving bloke in the tourist trap shop opposite. Shit. Eventually the \u20ac10 a sausage price was mentioned, at which point I&#8217;d given up and was fumbling for my wallet. Ju to the rescue: &#8220;No, thanks, too much, not for us&#8221;, and we left. Quite how we left I don&#8217;t know: Ju must have previously interfered with his tractor beam whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>After that shambles we made a game attempt to follow the tourist trail, but without much enthusiasm, and carefully avoided the loop back around past the no-doubt distraught purveyor of low carbon-mile cured meat produce. Vic&#8217;s a pretty place, especially the central square. The market&#8217;s on tomorrow. Bring it on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18872\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06735.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18872\" class=\"wp-image-18872 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06735-1024x386.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06735\" width=\"620\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06735-1024x386.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06735-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06735.jpg 1211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looks like Vic was bombed in the civil war. The plaque&#8217;s tiny &#8211; Ju spotted it next to the Roman Temple.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18879\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06747.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18879\" class=\"wp-image-18879 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06747-1024x456.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06747\" width=\"620\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06747-1024x456.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06747-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06747.jpg 1469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vic town square &#8211; still wonderfully gravel<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18868\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06736.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18868\" class=\"wp-image-18868 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06736-1024x786.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06736\" width=\"620\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06736-1024x786.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06736-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06736-70x53.jpg 70w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06736.jpg 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romans were here<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06734.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18867\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06734-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06734\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06734-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06734-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06734-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06734-70x53.jpg 70w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06734.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One last piccy: spotted in the town, presumably created by someone who doesn&#8217;t have a dog. I&#8217;ve tried explaining to Charlie where he can and cannot wee once outside, and so far, after 8 years of trying, he&#8217;s taken not a blind bit of notice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06751.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18876\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06751-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06751\" width=\"620\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06751-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06751-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06751.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheers! Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zagan the motorhome&#8217;s about a mile from the centre of Vic, Catalunya, Spain. He&#8217;s in a free aire provided by the town (N41.93493 E2.24048), in among trees overlooking an athletics track and what appears to be a rugby pitch. Do Spaniards play rugby? 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