The ARA Premium Club enjoys a trip around Cap de Creus
The newspaper's loyal fans' club is clearly committed to nature, which is complemented by exclusive guided tours of our cultural heritage, meals, and meetings with the newspaper's journalists.
Getting to know our country's natural treasures in detail is one of the goals of the ARA Premium Club. On the last weekend of September, several members of this club enjoyed two activities in two natural spaces in the Alt Empordà. Tickets for both activities sold out just days after they were announced. Therefore, the organizers intend to hold them again soon.
Saturday, a sunny and windless day in the Aiguamolls de l'Empordà, was ideal for the birdwatching, which guided the ornithologist Francesc Kirchner in that space. With a good pair of binoculars, you can zoom in to the participants a great diversity of birds. He also detected several with his hearing. As they walked, Kirchner explained a number of interesting facts, such as the fact that the babbler, a duck that is a symbol of the Empordà Wetlands Park, no longer lives – it is only seen during migration –, that birds molt once a year, that they are descendants of dinosaurs, and that in the world of birds (and Catalonia is one of the countries in Europe with the greatest diversity of birds, in proportion to its surface area, thanks to its great diversity of habitats).
Sunday was a completely cloudy day, but not a drop of rain fell. On board the San Isidro, no one had to open any umbrellas (they say this is unlucky). More than thirty Premium subscribers enjoyed a splendid trip around Cap de Creus, with a bath included (the most daring), with this centuries-old lute. San Isidro It has been a warship, a coastguard vessel, a vessel used for smuggling, a vessel involved in underwater research, a vessel for Greenpeace, a vessel abandoned during the post-Olympic crisis after serving as a tourist attraction and school vessel, and a vessel that has resurfaced as a recreational vessel. Its skipper, Lluís Romero Fiol, knows Cap de Creus like the back of his hand. Therefore, in the deepest areas, he approached the rock very close. Participants were able to see in detail the s'Infern cave and the natural bank on the island of s'Encalladora, where Dalí and Gala spent hours and hours, among many other features.
September is a period of kick-off of the cultural calendar and, of course, the agenda of activities of the Premium Club has included many essentially cultural ones, such as visits to Mas Miró with its director, to the Rubens exhibition at the MNAC, to the Arús Library, in Casaramona – headquarters of CaixaForum Barcelona –, and Invisible animals, at the Barcelona Museum of Natural Sciences.
This fall, among many other things, we're planning new meetings with journalists from the current affairs newspaper. Also, next week (October 10), we'll be attending a symphony orchestra rehearsal with the musicians (there are only a few places left).
If you want to enjoy it all,In these experiences, We encourage you to join the Premium Club.