A rebel without a clue.

€18 to look a little better? A Barber's shop visit to kill a little time away from the onslaught of the sea breeze in the sunshine. It's difficult, but to see old gentlemen tending to their allotments in the mid afternoon sun I swoon! They simply feel it differently and respond due to their nature's - they were born on this flat baking delta. They'd be frozen solid in England and a bit mouldy too? And I always wanted to see a Delta, then I recalled I'd seen the Camargue which is the same. I am losing the plot a little. I can hardly communicate in Spanish, but Catalan has lost me absolutely: it is a completely new language for me to listen to, picking out words I understand in other people's conversations. Last year when coming off the Pyrenees, undone by the fall near Vinça, I struggled to make any sense of what was being said. Now I do understand that Catalonia isn't Spain. It's culturally, historically, socially different. It's time to ...

The ever present drone of the autovia following me breaking the illusion of being solitary, below the sky - along the edge of land and sea - crawling along the rolling coves, cliffs, inlets and beaches. *** Up and down. Down and then up! All the way along the GR92 it was testing my patience: and the sun was getting a little intense too. Finally stopped for the morning - it's one!  Will eat well before attempting the next leg of the journey: Deltebre... Give me Entrecot, extra rare, but first Croquetas Jamon.  It's extremely warm, already, for June and it's testing me absolutely. It's a coastal path, but it takes it to the extreme! I had to remove my boots with 7.5 kilometres left until L'Ampolla, as the strain was showing on the old war wounded foot, and on went the sandals which have given me blisters... I feel like a maniac as I down a Entrecot, fried egg, frites and a large salad. I was going to hang on, but someone lit up behind me so I am on my way ...

Damn you person on the floors above playing music at 4am until 5... Inconsiderate and garbage all the way - Would I Lie To You! They can't have been young or fashionable to listen to 1980s/90s crap. Struggling in and out of sleep until a Gull suggested its daylight. Now I await breakfast at 7:30, it's part of the price and yet I so feel like not having it here, but instead along the dockside... ... I couldn't wait for breakfast so I went up to the Mercat, which was closed, so I find myself on the same boulevard where there is Jacaranda blossoms falling. Just up from the Port... La Rambleta. And the flies are finding plenty of substances on me ... Subtly better than mosquitoes. It's going to be 31°C today... Camino del Ebro tomorrow? Ate Dorada last night in Oh! Mar with a couple of glasses of dry white wine it was lovely. The recommendation was worthy of €17 (I was truly swindled in Esmeralda...£29) I also had a better Gazpacho in Cala Cris. I was a bit desperate yester...