Cadaques: Did Someone say “Beach”?

Our house in Cadaques was very close to the water and the beach, and the main square. We drove the car as close as we could to where our house was. We had to drag all of our luggage a couple of rocky streets up a hill to get to the house. I did not help bring anything in as I was still feeling sick from the ride. The house was an old fisherman’s house from the 1800’s, and was owned by a violinist. It had 4 floors. The first floor used to be where the fishermen kept their fish, and it had 2 couches. One of them we accidentally broke later on and repaired. The other one folded out into a bed. The whole house had 8 beds and could sleep 11 people. Also we had a mysterious room that had no door and no trap door: we could only see it through a window.

The next day I found out the world track and field championships were on, and my Dad let me watch TV for the first time since we were in Europe to watch them. So the coming week I spent a lot of my idle time in the morning watching the championships on TV. The next day, we went to a rocky beach, and my dad and I went snorkeling. When Lindsay went into the water she broke her sandals, and suddenly miraculously fit in mine... When we got back to the house my feet were all orange from my new orange sandals. The next day we went to a big waterpark that was a lot of fun. We spent the whole day there.

Then, we went to an old Greek and Roman city that is being excavated called Empuries. The name Empuries comes form the name “emporion” which means marketplace because it was a big trade city. Also, right outside the city, there was an amphitheater and – now this is pretty disgusting so brace yourselves – there was a penis carved on the walls of the city which was supposed to keep the city safe. There were also mosaics on a bunch of the old floors, and there were water tanks called cisterns that were made so well that they still held water in them – so the water they had in them could be thousands of years old. There were also still piers and breakwaters to protect the ships on the beach. The beach was so nice there that we decided to come back the next day just to stay on the beach. Before we left, my dad sent me out to buy some bread on my own, so we could make sandwiches. I came back with bread AND caps for a capgun! At the beach, my dad saw a foot-long fish jump out of the water in the waves. I lost a tooth at the restaurant taking out my retainer. I tried to put it in my baby sitter's plate as a surprise while she went to the bathroom but she figured it out.

Tomorrow we are leaving for Barcelona. We are going to stay there until the end of the year. Then we go to Paris in France.