This is a lovely little village on the coast in Spain. Difficult to find and a bit of a tedious journey but well worth the drive once you arrive. We stayed at La Torre hotel (The Tower), which is like something out of the 1970s for style and service. The best thing was the view which is stunning

The hotel bar wasn’t open, neither was the restaurant. Upon arrival after a long tiring drive, we were greeted with “passports and you pay NOW!” I said I’d like to see the room first before we pay anything. There was an outside bar with a beautiful terrace, which only seemed to open on random days. The funniest incident was when we were sitting on the terrace one evening with our own bottle of wine (as the bar was yet again closed), enjoying the view and the hotel owner/manager came out to us and asked us to come in as he was locking up. It was 10pm!! We truly expected Basil Fawlty to appear at any second.

That aside, Calella is a great place with some excellent restaurants, the fish is so fresh it’s literally from sea to plate. Sol I Mar is one of the best, followed by La Caula tapas bar with a huge selection of delicious food.

La Caula has a great system – take a plate, go up to the bar and choose your tapas. During the evening the waiters brought out lots of hot tapas for you to choose from. Tiny burgers, samosas, dates with nuts, wrapped in bacon, warm scallops, huge prawns, mini soufflés. Each tapa comes on a stick and at the end of the night they count up the sticks and you pay. Brilliant

There’s no reservations, just a queue outside from 7.30 each night and you join it and wait . You can also get the QR code and they’ll give you a ten minute warning when the table is ready so off we went to have a cocktail in the bar next door – very civilised.