Costa Brava
On Saturday, 18.May, we drove about 450 km from Rocamadour in southern France to “Mama’s” in Empuriabrava on the northern Meditarian coast in Spain (Costa Brava). We used the fast A roads via Toulouse, Carcassonnne and Narbonne and only go back onto local “N” roads after Perpignan to go along the spectacular coastal road via Port Vendres, Banyuls-sur-Mer into Spain and on to Llanca and finally to Empuriabrava.
The 5 nights (4 days) were spent mainly with family and eating home cooked meals as one would when visiting “Mama” :-). We needed to update the TV (with a new 26″ flat screen) as the old one had just died the day before our arrival, as well as the Laptop with another second hand unit (only is used for family eMails by Mama 
- who is after all 87 this year).
We did manage to go back to Ca La Maria for Lunch before we left. As on previous visits we had an excellent traditional Spanish meal - including Pigs Trotters, Pigeon, Leg of Kid (Goat) and of course the famous local Anchovies.
Leaving Mama and her trusted little dog companion “Teddy” was not easy as usual.