Sitges

Day 3 was another beach day. This time we took a train a half hour south to a resort town called Sitges. This town had lots of charm, a beautiful old church and kilometres of coastline with the finest sand beaches. The beach that we ended up hanging out at for the entire day was called Platja De La Bassa Rodona. This beach quickly became my second favourite beach of all time; following closely behind Playa Varadero. We decided it would be worth renting lounge beach chairs for $5.50 Euro each. While this may seem a little silly, trust me when I say it was well worth it. It gave us a comfortable place to lie in the sun without getting the lovely fine sand everywhere. The water here I found to be slightly warmer than the other beach we visited. The swimming area here did not drop off as quickly as the other beach which probably factored into why I felt the water was warmer. We spent a fabulous day swimming, wave crashing and sun tanning. I enjoyed this beach time so much that I kept saying that we need to move to Sitges so I can just sit on the beach every day.

Before leaving on our day excursion, we stopped at the market at La Rambla and purchased some fresh fruit and nuts which we snacked on throughout the day. After grabbing a very late lunch, we explored the town a little and found ourselves witnessing two weddings taking place at the church.

Sitges was definitely a great way to finish off our short time in Barcelona. We almost didn’t make it there because prior to leaving on this trip we read about the area and I decided it wasn’t really somewhere overly interesting. Boy was I wrong.