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# Emmanuel_and_Family
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* [Important tips about the house and the urbanisation](#important-tips-about-the-house-and-the-urbanisation)
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* [Driving in the Urbanisation](#driving-in-the-urbanisation)
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* [Blinds on the house](#blinds-on-the-house)
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* [The coffee maker](#the-coffee-maker)
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* [General Electrical Circuit breaker](#general-electrical-circuit-breaker)
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* [TV](#tv)
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* [Garbage](#garbage)
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* [Conditioned air](#conditioned-air)
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* [BBQ (barbecue)](#bbq-barbecue)
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* [Mosquitoes](#mosquitoes)
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* [Restaurants nearby](#restaurants-nearby)
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* [Cal parrufu](#cal-parrufu)
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* [Can mariano](#can-mariano)
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* [ca'l antonieta](#cal-antonieta)
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* [restaurant L'antic Ramonet](#restaurant-lantic-ramonet)
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* [pizzas in the Montsoliu Hostel](#pizzas-in-the-montsoliu-hostel)
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* [Where to buy food](#where-to-buy-food)
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* [supermarket bonpreu](#supermarket-bonpreu)
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* [bonarea](#bonarea)
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* [bread in Pa de la Sara](#bread-in-pa-de-la-sara)
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* [fruit and vegetables](#fruit-and-vegetables)
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* [meat](#meat)
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* [Attractions](#attractions)
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* [water world](#water-world)
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* [Selva Aventura](#selva-aventura)
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* [La Roca Village](#la-roca-village)
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* [places to visit](#places-to-visit)
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* [L'Escala](#lescala)
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* [Cadaques and the cap de creus](#cadaques-and-the-cap-de-creus)
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* [Vic](#vic)
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* [villages on the costa brava](#villages-on-the-costa-brava)
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* [hiking trips](#hiking-trips)
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* [Agudes peak](#agudes-peak)
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# Important tips about the house and the urbanisation
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## Driving in the Urbanisation
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While driving through the urbanisation, please drive slow and carefully, there are plenty of kids all around during summer.
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You never know from where they will come, and there are a lot of bushes which could hide them.
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People in the "urba" is always aware of this and looking for people not driving safely :-P
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## Blinds on the house
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Please keep the top floor BIGGER blinds down all the time except when you're there of course xD
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The 2 main reasons are:
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* Heat
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* They leak water to the inside when is raining, you'll see some marks on the wall because of this :-(
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## The coffee maker
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When filling the water desposit and putting it back into the machine, you have to push firmly or it will leak water when doing coffee.
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## General Electrical Circuit breaker
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Its hidden in the pantry under the ladder near to the kitchen, I will show you.
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You need to know this just in case the electricty goes off (Normally this only happen in winter because of high usage of electricity).
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We face this 2 or 3 times at year at most...
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## TV
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the house does not have TV xD
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## Garbage
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The garbage containers are located outside the urbanisation [here](https://maps.app.goo.gl/98dEj3GPkEYmSeLj7).
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Take a lot of care, lately there are a lot of WISP there!!!! This weekend one bites me :-(
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## Conditioned air
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I'll tell you how to manage...
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or just where the remote controller is located xD they are easy to manage :-P
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## BBQ (barbecue)
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BBQ is forbidden in the urbanisation along with all the Montseny Natural park.
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Please don't start a fire of any kind outside the house (and considering the high temperatures, I'm sure you don't want to use the fireplace xD).
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If you want to do a BBQ, there is a place: [El Pol](http://www.elpol.cat/), [map plink](https://maps.app.goo.gl/fUWvT9p7Rbixv4eZ6).
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Its a private place, so you have to pay to enter. There are usually a lot of people, so I recommend you to reserve or skip it (that will be my case, I had never gone there :-P).
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## Mosquitoes
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Here in spain there is a "new" race of mosquitoes coming from Africa, maybe you know them, the "tiger mosquito" [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus).
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Also we have standard/spaniards mosquitos.
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The problem is that the tiger bite you from 3 to 7 times and if your body has not built up resistance to the poison, it could be very anoying.
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I recommend that you bring mosquito repellent.
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# Restaurants nearby
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I hadn't gone to any of these, but are personal recommendation from my friend which lives in Arbucies.
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## Cal parrufu
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Hostalric
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/jkMdv3jbtdoMxrZ89
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## Can mariano
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Breda
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/oRXdYEuwh46uTddd6
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## ca'l antonieta
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Breda
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(Translation is antonieta's house)
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/L57zwk9aRtuC7qBF8
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## restaurant L'antic Ramonet
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Arbucies
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/f3dSC4VbBxpmouih8
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## pizzas in the Montsoliu Hostel
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Special recommendation from my friend (only pizza)
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/A7YExFUzAmtiQJAbA
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# Where to buy food
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And other stuff
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## supermarket bonpreu
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Arbucies.
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Easy to park, is the biggest in many kilometres.
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Meat is not good in the Bonpreu supermarket (any of them).
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/jg4qk1iEzKsm1a487?g_st=ac
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## bonarea
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Breda
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Little supermarket from a big "chain", they have their own brands made from local farmers (in Lleida province).
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Cheap.
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/rKbTNrJDHB6PJDMj7
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Its the only one that bring the order to the house if you make the order through the web. The web has everything you need, it's a very important one here in Catalonia (they contacted me to work with them but the offices are on Lleida and there's no good wfh schedule...)
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## bread in Pa de la Sara
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Breda
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100% handmade Bread and traditional dessert's.
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You must to buy "Coca". And you'll never buy enough 🤣🤣🤣
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/AJSZ5fpDp34hMgmy9?g_st=ac
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## fruit and vegetables
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Sunday morning in Breda (also Saturday in Riells) there is a traditional market on the street where local farmers sell fruit and vegetables.
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If you want to go, I'll tell you the good one. Also I'll tell them you are going because of my recommendation.
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I'm sure you will remember their tomatoes.
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## meat
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Breda
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/zf8zwGum1WkKSxD48
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# Attractions
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## water world
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LLoret de Mar
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/deV1VV95Lbge445E9
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## Selva Aventura
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In the Forest 😛 only if you don't have fear of being high in the trees.
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the web page is in Catalan only. They recommend make a pre-reservation, I can do the reservation for you.
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/qqigkAJscBHXY4CCA
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## La Roca Village
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This is not a attraction like the others, I'm writing it here because for you wife, this will be an attraction 🤣😛 (just kidding)
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Prepare your credit card 💥💥💥
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This a outlet center, there are "hundred" of stores inside.
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Here you'll find luxury clothing brands but also sports brands (nike, Reebok...). I go there to buy high quality clothes for the mountain (Columbia).
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Everything is 100% real, no fakes/counterfeit.
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Go early in the morning to bed able to park your car, personal recommendation.
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Also i commit you to open an account via web, you'll get additional discounts.
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You'll spend all day here...... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 there are a couple of restaurants of course.
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/X2Sw9gyWZooZa4jx6
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# places to visit
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## L'Escala
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For me, the most beautiful village of "La Costa Brava"
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/kQj969jFAuxhdhZ78?g_st=ac
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## Cadaques and the cap de creus
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Cap de Creus is a national park, highly protected area.
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Beaches are awesome.
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And the heat is also awesome, knee of the places with highest temperatures you can find.
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Cadaques is beautiful of course.
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/GM3rDKA3o1KWprWr7?g_st=ac
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## Vic
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Where I'm currently living.
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It has a nice old town, its plenty of stores, restaurants and "live" in general.
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Also famous because of the meat (there are a lot of farms all around), the cold in winter and the heat in summer 🤣🤣🤣
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Tell me if you come here.
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Its a good option if you want to buy meat, fruit/veggies and goods for all your stay.
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## villages on the costa brava
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There are a lot of very beautiful village all across the coast.
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They will be VERY crowd on those days.
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## hiking trips
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This is difficult because I'm a freak of mountains and nature and there are a big amount of places 🤣
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### Agudes peak
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This is the [big peak](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-tkMaLwdQhHA%2FUoJMruLwfJI%2FAAAAAAAABbE%2FpFw09QukRLY%2Fs1600%2FLes%2BAgudes%2B1706m%2C%2BMontseny.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=dde902de259cfe6ba3d6c14efdc8187918f97270b4c8c453138f3c5ac67ace71&ipo=images) you can see from the urbanisation.
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For me is "must", I went running from the house. I don't recommend you to do that xD there are ~24km go and back, so I suggest you to take the car and follow [this](https://maps.app.goo.gl/b8bQbivmr7B3cugT7) route to go near.
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Then use [this route](https://www.alltrails.com/explore/map/map-july-24-2024-e8542a0?u=m&sh=zi3lyo) to go to the top and back.
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And comeback by car using [this](https://maps.app.goo.gl/G7qte4VznoF5ssx46) route.
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The reason is that the comeback route is AWESOME by car. You'll get stunning views while going down from the mountain.
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Don't do this trip on a weekend, it will be VERY DANGEROUS because the amount of motorcycles going up and down the mountain, they are fuc**ing crazy...
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Please tellme if you do this route and I'll give you additional tips.
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