Time makes the difference

Yesterday it was at least 20° and we ate atone of the year-round restaurants at the port then walked along the promenade. The Mediterranean was so calm that waves were rare.

Unlike in summer the beach was littered with driftwood. In summer it is cleaned for the tanning bodies spread out on towels.

On this peaceful day with the tower that once was used as a look out between different warring factions it was hard to remember during a freezing 1939 January some 100,000 refuges fleeing Franco's Spain were huddled up and down these shores.