L’Escala is a small old fishing town sitting in the Alt Empordà coast, just about bang on what the locals call The Costa Brava: small secluded bays (many of them only reachable by boat), thick-sand beaches (it is one of the towns with most blue-flag beaches in Spain), deep shores (none of that ‘walk a mile and the water is still only at your waist’: 5 steps and you’re neck-deep, careful!), rocky cliffs ending on the water, deep-green pine trees painfully twisted by unmerciful winds and, speaking of which, home of the Tramuntana -a spiteful Northern wind which has a marked tendency to destroy both people’s properties and their sanity…
