Figueres

While searching for a parking spot 3 drunken guys waved us over to try and help us out. Well at least one of the guys was trying to help, the other guy was trying to speak to us in Dutch (he didn’t believe we were Canadian and couldn’t understand him) and eventually asked us in English if he could sleep in our van for the night, the third guy was pretending he didn’t know the other two. Despite their good intentions, this made Julie uncomfortable, so we moved on to find other parking. We stumbled across two other campers parked in a Lidl grocery store parking lot so we decided to join them. The next morning we made our way to the Salvador Dali museum, which happened to be closed as it was a Monday (a slight oversight), since this was the only thing to see in this town, we headed off for Carcassonne, France. On our way back to the van, we passed a small shop that was selling bandanas. The old lady that owned the shop was extremely pleasant and made Julie’s day. As Julie was browsing the different colours available, the lady was teaching Julie the colours in Spanish all the while smiling. It really was a great experience as the lady didn’t speak any English, and we didn’t speak any Spanish yet we were able to communicate with each other (something the lady pointed out with gestures). This was a great way to end our time in Spain, since most of the time spent here Julie and I encountered reluctance from people to provide us with any sort of help and/or information. One Spanish word we got very used to hearing in Spain was “magnana” (tomorrow).