Girona and walking (04/11)

 Up early, packed and on my way to Girona by 9am.  Drive was only about 50 mins and completely straight forward.  The car park was a bit iffy to find but once I got to the correct entrance (Fnarr) all was good.  Parked up, bike inside van and off I went on my walk.

What a walk it was, amazing architecture, streets and just wow factor around the cathedral / old town area.

I went to the cathedral first as I planned on doing a self guided Game of thrones tour (with the help of ChatGPT). 

Wee pic while on my way to cathedral, this is the Onyar river, its actually not all that pretty when you see it in the flesh but still, i thought this was pretty shiny.  More of this later

My first glimpse of the cathedral, rather spectacular

A street on the way to front of cathedral, this was pretty standard in the old town, amazing

I did the cathedral tour, it was incredibly good, I did have one of my wee “the opulence here when people are starving etc etc” but enough of that.

Stairs to the entrance

The photos on this I don’t think show the detail very well which is a shame, maybe you need to pay extra for full size pics or something.  The detail in this, and many other (chapels) was quite incredible.

Shiny window stuff

He died for our sins y’know

On walking in this is what mets you, the place was huge and even although I am no religious was incredible impressive

After the tour, this is from the rear

I took quite a a few pics on the tour, and if so inclined I could have taken many more.  It is one of the most impressive cathedrals ive ever been to, much preferred it for example to the Vatican which is just overload, kinda like the Jones’s saying “look how big my car is…, oh, and it has all these features, more than any other car” - I know, im now talking about lot of pish, next up….

Food, I was so tired and hungry by this point.  Lots of walking, stairs and heat.  Found a cafe and got lucky. La Comuna cafe. Very relaxed, great coffee and even better food.

Refreshed I then did the GoT tour, followed it through Chat GPT and Google maps, all very easy and also saw loads of other stuff while I was doing it.

From a bridge further along, the Eiffel Bridge.  That link gives the history of it, its pretty cool, if you like that sort of thing.

On the Eiffel bridge facing the not as famous as Copenhagen, coloured houses

Arya ran up this being chased in GoT, yup, I definitely had my GoT geek on today

…and this, phew, must have been exhausting 

AS part of the walk I also took in the Turk baths, the square where Arya was cornered, Jamie going up the steps on horseback (rather than his sisters), and various other bits n pieces.  Really enjoyed it.

After getting my GoT fix I then just wandered around for a while, ran out of water, bought more, bonus. Perhaps I should tell you my favourite type of water, get a forever supply.. oh wait, it’s Scottish tap water, hey ho. 💧 

Jut walking around the old town was pretty incredible, I was in awe of the whole place, stopping to take it in many times (and catch a breather).  According to my watch ive walked roughly 8 miles today, and boy did I start feeling it.

So back to the van, did exciting things on the way, like buy a window cleaning thing as the van windows were filthy all round, and a new comfy pillow, as the one I have in the van is rubbish.  hey, you don’t get such exciting and in depth info on any of those flashy influencer pages, plus I am not creating my own crypto to try and sell…. (Yet…mwahahahahahaha). Other good stuff was I took a diffferent way back to the van, always good seeing a different view of the same sorta place.

Well thats me, if you made it this far well down, I think I went on a bit.

Off over Alicante way tomorrow, a long drive but should be good