More (Port)Adventures in Salou - Day 6

[HEMANCLOFTY]

More (Port) Adventures in Salou
Day 6 – Sunday 3rd June 2018

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We’d decided to have a morning at the beach today before heading back to the parks for the afternoon / early evening. The alarm was set for an 8am “lie in”, but we all slept through it, eventually waking up at 8:20am.

It was just Tom and I for breakfast again, and we headed down by 8:50am (leaving Rich to finish getting ready)…

Chocolate pancakes and a bowl of Sugar Puffs for Tom…

Bacon, tortilla and beans, followed by some apple crepes, a mini muffin and some pineapple for me…

We were back in the room by 9:20am – it was a bit gloomy and rainy this morning...

...but we decided to stick with our plan. I made up a packed lunch and we mooched down to the beach…

After about 15 mins or so it started drizzling, so we decided to walk up to the “town centre” part of town in hunt of the Dunkin Coffee shop that Rich had found online…

I had a latte and we each had a donut /pastry – it came to about €10…

The rain had stopped by the time we'd finished, so we mooched back towards the beach, finding Roadhouse Express so that we’d know where it was next time…

We had about an hour sat under some trees on the beach, eating our lunch and mucking about...

Although it was still overcast, it was quite warm, so Tom and I braved the sea…

It started raining again, so Tom and I went to the loos to change out of our wet swimmers, which was a pointless exercise as we got more wet walking down the promenade in the rain .

We sheltered under some trees for a while...

Then made a run for it to the FC Barcelona shop...

Tom bought himself a hat (€19.90), and then another (€35) from a shop that we didn't get the name of, but sold lots of racing merchandise and designer bags and sunglasses…

We also bought a carton of cigarettes for Rich (€50) from the tobacconist.

We were back at the hotel by 2:15pm and rested until 3pm, by which time it had really brightened up.

We got ready for the parks and headed out at 3:40pm, arriving at PortAventura by 4pm...

Rich had brought his iPad out today to get some photos, so we took our time ambling around, stopping for lots of photos ops…

We watched the 4:30pm Can-Can show in Far West, ordering some Nachos, chicken fingers and a large Coke to share whilst we watched (€14.50)…

The food was ok (sorry no pics) and the show was good, the pics don’t do it justice as it was quite dark…

After the show, I met cowboy Woody and Winnie, and we watched the characters from the Bang Bang Stunt Show doing some funny sketches…

It was 5pm by now and time for some rides. We did Yucatan in Mexico first – this was hilarious as the centrifugal forces were making Rich crush into me and he was trying so hard not to – we laughed all the way through…

Then me and Tom had a ride on Los Portrillos.

Next was Dragon Khan for all of us, which was only a 10-minute queue, followed by a single-rider go each on Shambhala for me and Rich (we really do love this ride)…

I managed to catch Rich on this one...

It was 7pm by now and Tom wanted a go on Angkor (splash battle), so I went on with him whilst Rich looked after the bags and took more pics on his iPad. I got bitten again – the water must attract the beasties .

Into the SesamoAventura area next, where Tom and I went on Magic Fish, which was really good for a kiddie ride, and we also did El Salto de Blas as it was good fun last time .

We were all done by now, but had a good mooch around Records de Port Aventura on the way out, and the boys got a Dragon Khan mug each (€21 for the two)…

A quick change back at the hotel…

…and we headed down to KFC for tea tonight (we do love a KFC). We got there at 9:15pm and ordered a mix of chicken strips, pieces, fries and mash – costing approx. €21…

We had intended to pop down for a quick drink at the Cocktail bar that Jonny at Roadshouse had told us about last night, but we were all shattered so decided to head back to the hotel, stopping at the Simply convenience store on the way...

We got some cans of pop for tomorrow, plus some M&Ms for Tom and a few biccies (€5), and were back to our room by 10:30pm...

I spent an hour getting most of the packing sorted, as we were going home tomorrow night . Then had a quick social catch up and wrote some brief summary notes about our day until midnight.

I was absolutely shattered and my legs were really aching and crampy tonight after our big hike yesterday!

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[Melbatb]

Another fab day - though shame about the rain!