A Few More Vacation Pictures

At 9:45pm it was a comfortable temperature to walk along the
beach toward the church (Iglesia de Sant Bartomeu i Santa Tecla). 

It was also a comfortable temperature in the morning.

Are these volcanic rocks? How about the one with the trail of
small holes? Maybe pholad boring? Learn something new everyday!

So many shell shards!

It must have been a great job to make the 50+ benches that line the beach path.

We did a bit of window shopping. I did not buy these shoes
with Dali on the toes and Einstein on the side.

"Country Home"
I took so many pictures of tiled house names.
We are still thinking about a name for our California house.

I like this house with the matching name tiles.

But now we are back in Sant Cugat. It is time to pack and find a good home for all the things we need to leave behind.

Night of Fire

Or Nit de Foc or Nit de Sant Joan. Yes, another holiday! It is a solstice celebration and a floating holiday. There are so many holidays that municipalities decide which ones to observe (meaning you have to check each year to find out which city has which days off).

One tradition is to eat Coca de Sant Joan, which was served at a party we went to.
A. didn't care for it so we skipped the cava and coca part of this holiday.

On the evening of 23 June we saw a lot of families with boxes
like these, a sampler of several types of firecrackers and fireworks.

We were told that it is mostly for kids, but with parents helping.

Lots of excited kids.

We also saw older kids with bigger fireworks, but these
are more expensive. I wonder if the ones we saw were set
off by individuals or maybe some hotel or organization paid for them.

What we didn't see were bonfires, which is a usual part of the tradition and are
along the beaches of Barcelona. We'll have to come back next year and try again.

The celebrations went late into the night, but somehow we were able to finally fall asleep.

Sitges

City symbols show up in so many places. 

Atop the sign at the train station.

On the maintenance cover

On the bus stop

Temporary metal barriers

Flag in the shopping area

City permit at construction site

Trash can

Sidewalk

Local police car (also a patch on the local police
uniform, but I didn't take a picture of that).

So many streets have tile street signs with the symbol, which are nice to see, but hard to use.
I especially like the signs with the old Spanish and the newer Catalan names.

This town also has many metal signs,
which are also nice and also not terribly functional.