Catalonia Gardens, Salou

Advantages: Wonderful city with loads to see and do.
Disadvantages: Can get hot and crowded in summer. Watch your valuables!

...If you're in Spain (Catalonia to be precise) I advise you to visit my favourite city: Barcelona! I have visited five times, both during the day and at night - I haven't got bored yet and aim to go again as soon as I can! It can get very hot and crowded in the high season...I would recommend going during the cooler, quieter months. Barcelona is located by the Mediterranean, at the north eastern end of the Spanish coastline. The city of Barcelona has a population of 1,510,000, but this number increases to more than 4,000,000 if the outlying areas are also included. Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain in both size and population. It is also the capital of Catalonia, an Autonomous Region within Spain. There are two official languages spoken in Barcelona: Catalan, generally spoken in all of Catalonia, and Castillian Spanish... Read review

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Advantages: Reasonably priced, hot, fun
Disadvantages: Becoming quite commercialised

...not far away in Tarragona which is easy to reach by train. There are also plently of museums and art galleries around. Of course, about an hour away by train, is the Catalan capital of Barcelona. Here you can admire Gaudi's magnificent architecture and tiled buildings (I especially reccommend the beautiful Parc Guell) plus his cathedral, called the Sagrada Familia. This is actually still being built according to Gaudi's original plans. For those of you like me, Las Ramblas is a good place to head to in the centre of the city. It reminds of Covent Garden in London for all the street entertainers. Back to Salou though, there are plenty of bars and restaurants. I would suggest eating out slightly later than you normally would back in England as the Spanish have a long Siesta in the early afternoon so the dinner hour is closer to about 8pm... Read review

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Advantages: Salou, Port Aventura (the best European theme park), Tarragona, Cambrils, 1 hour to Barcelona
Disadvantages: Disadvantages?????

...Travelling to all corners of the world gets easier and easier. We live in a global village, but how well do we know and understand each other? I thought that you (the British) were cool and reserved, but, fortunately, I do not believe in stereotypes now, so I don’t think that the great topic of conversation between strangers in Britain is the weather –unemotional and impersonal- (for example). But, do British tourists know where they are when they come to Salou?… ### WHAT IS SALOU??? ### Salou, my birthplace, is a gorgeous city. It is a holiday destination and reference point, concentrating the majority of the basic tourism industry infrastructure in the Tarragona coast (South Catalonia), a tourist and residential city that has consolidated its capital role as the leisure and service centre of the ‘Costa Daurada’, (Catalan... Read review

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