Erki & Katrina hitch-hiking Europe

Camping in Marseillan and learning French customs

Other two days of our camping experience in South of France was spent in a small town called Marseillan. Highlights were the beaces there and some truth or dare with guys in the evenings.

Eric building me a nice body from sand

Having dinner in Marseillan camping

Enjoying the beach

Lunch in town

French dinner at camping

Beziers, Cap d'Agde and awesome friends

Back in France!!!

After spending about 3 weeks in Spain and Portugal, we returned back to France. Raphaël, our CouchSurfing host from Tours invited us to camp with him and his friend Eric for few days in Cap d'Agde area.

Getting from Barcelona to France was actually fairly easy. We used inner city transport tickets to get on the edge of the town and then were fortunate to get a ride all the way to Narbonne. The driver was a young french guy who, by his words, was actually a truck driver. He most certainly had different kind of driving skills.

We spent our first night in a town called Béziers. For france, it seemed to be a small town. Unfortunately we weren't able to locate the McDonalds where our GPS program said to be, but fortunately had a chance to recharge the phone in the train station, next to what we eventually ended up sleeping. In the morning we did a small hitch-hiking trip to reach Cap d'Agde, where we met Raphaël again.

Once Eric arrived, after driving two days in a row from Portugal, we looked for a camping site and settled in there. In the evening by accident we actually ended up in the neighbouring campsites foam party. A fun night, counting out the punishment on smartphones and one hat.

On the second day at the camp we went on a wine tasting trip through local vineyards. Truly once in a lifetime experience. We ended up buying couple of wines from two different spots and headed back to camp to enjoy it next to some frisbee throwing.

Sucking on a smurf in Beziers

Rock massage for Raphaël

Foam party

Camping in Cap d'Agde

Eric and his precious

Erki putting up the tent

Raphaël putting up the tent

Our camping companions

Wine tasting trip

Night at the "lovely" little town Beziers

Camping with Raphaël and Eric

Wine tasting trip

Results of the wine tasting trip

Doing some sightseeing

Valencia, Tarragona and finally Barcelona

After spending about 5 days in the amazing little house in the hills of Beas de Granada we started to head out to Barcelona. It was going to be a long trip, as Barcelona was about 800km away from us. Two Polish girls who stayed at Tom's place on our first days there actually started on the same journey couple of days earlier. They were fortunate enough to get a ride all the way to Barcelona with a Romanian truck driver. Although we didn't expect to have as much luck, we wouldn't have minded to get fairly close to Barcelona.

It actually took a while to get moving from the gas station we started of from. About 3 hours before we got a car a bit away from Granada. As usually, as soon as you get moving, things start going well. When hitchhiking on the side of the speedway we were able to get a ride with a cool guy named Jorge, who was driving from South of Spain to Valencia. He was very helpful and interesting person to be on the road with. With 500km to go to Valencia, we had a great chance to get to know him more and talk about Spain, spanish people and share some insight of Estonia.

When we got to Valencia, we were greeted by unexpectedly high humidity. It was totaly different climate compared to one we left from in the morning. Temperatures may not have been that high, but it felt fairly hot. Fortunately the airport had a good airconditioning system, so sleeping through the night wasn't too difficult. Our stay in Valencia was extremely short, as we even didn't see the center of town. Being back besides the road early in the morning.

Our first ride from Valencia took us to a small town past Castellon called Benicàssim that hosted a reggae festival at that time. As the town was filled with all kinds of reggae lovers and otherwise travelers, we fitted right in. After stopping for a small breakfast break we tried to move on closer to Barcelona. It was tricky getting cars from that point on, as we actually hitchhiked twice on a car that took us about 10 km to next closest town on both times. There also were couple of drivers who promised to take us all the way to Tarragona, but dropped us off half way there or so. But in the end we made our way to Tarragona, which was about 100km from Barcelona. As the daylight had dissapeared by that time, we had to leave those for the next day. Our night in Tarragona was spent in the local bus terminal, which was fairly ok for sleeping.

In the morning we decided to let our legs and mind rest a bit and take a bus all the way to Barcelona. It was fairly comfortable ride after couple of wearing days behind us. Once in Barcelona we set out to find tourist information point. They fortunately had McDonalds maps as well, just like in Madrid. So finding wifi wasn't that difficult, just had to find a spot to charge the phone as well. Once we got that, back to hostelbookers we went. It was our main site for finding hostels over the trip. Took a hostel that was located bit outside of the main area of Barcelona, but it was cheaper because of that and it gave us a chance to sleep in a bed for a change and take a nice shower.

The hostel did have its shortcomings, so our second night ing Barcelona was spent in the airport. Also we dropped our bags off in the airport early in the morning, so we had a whole day to discover Barcelona, without having to carry around our big backpacks.

The city of Barcelona was just as great as expected. There were long beautiful beaches to relax on and mesmerizing palm tree avenues. On our way back from the beaches we also took a look at the Sagrada Familia church, which was fairly interesting to see, with its unique architecture and high focus on small details.