{"id":3574,"date":"2009-10-04T20:29:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T20:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2009-10-04T20:29:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T20:29:26","slug":"visiting_costa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3574","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Costa Brava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/f1091560-aee2-11de-96d7-00144feabdc0.html\">Sue Style<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Mention the words Costa Brava and for most people they will evoke visions of high-rise hotels, wall-to-wall traffic, pubs, fish and chips and Full English Breakfasts. Yet 100 years ago, the Catalan poet Ferran Agull\u00f3 was so moved by the rugged pine-clad cliffs plunging to deserted sandy coves and turquoise waters that he dreamed up the name Costa Brava, meaning \u201cthe wild coast\u201d.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nToday it can be a stretch to imagine what it was about this famous area that so bewitched people. But a recent trip to this beautiful stretch of coastline, which runs from Portbou on the French border in the north down to Blanes (short of Barcelona) in the south, showed how much is worth rediscovering.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nI\u2019m having a bit of a battle with myself, though. On the one hand, in the interests of those who know and understand the Costa Brava, I should button my lip about its delicious coves, its singular small hotels, quirky restaurants and distinctive wines. On the other hand, it was such a revelation to me to discover that the Costa Brava is not all tat and tattoos that I can\u2019t help blurting it out. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful, indeed.  Years ago, I spent an evening on a Port Bou beach whilst the French trains were on strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/f1091560-aee2-11de-96d7-00144feabdc0.html\">Sue Style<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Mention the words Costa Brava and for most people they will evoke visions of high-rise hotels, wall-to-wall traffic, pubs, fish and chips and Full English Breakfasts. Yet 100 years ago, the Catalan poet Ferran Agull\u00f3 was so moved by the rugged pine-clad cliffs plunging to deserted sandy coves and turquoise waters that he dreamed up the name Costa Brava, meaning \u201cthe wild coast\u201d.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nToday it can be a stretch to imagine what it was about this famous area that so bewitched people. But a recent trip to this beautiful stretch of coastline, which runs from Portbou on the French border in the north down to Blanes (short of Barcelona) in the south, showed how much is worth rediscovering.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nI\u2019m having a bit of a battle with myself, though. On the one hand, in the interests of those who know and understand the Costa Brava, I should button my lip about its delicious coves, its singular small hotels, quirky restaurants and distinctive wines. On the other hand, it was such a revelation to me to discover that the Costa Brava is not all tat and tattoos that I can\u2019t help blurting it out. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful, indeed.  Years ago, I spent an evening on a Port Bou beach whilst the French trains were on strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}