Musclarium



According to Google translate, musclarium in English is musclarium.  If you Google it, you'll get the place we went to today so I guess it's a made up word.

On the other side of the Delta is a huge marina where you can take a water taxi to an oyster farm restaurant.  For dinner, they offer all kinds of seafood but we went for the champagne lunch which includes a bottle of champagne, 3 oysters with mussels or 6 huge oysters. 17 euros.
View of the oyster beds from the restaurant 

Before you order, you're required to listen to a lecture about how oysters are farmed.  I didn't understand a word since the lecture was in Catalan but Beata says it takes over 3  years for oysters to mature but 7 months for mussels. The speaker pulled up a rope with young oysters from the pylons and explained they have to be separated from each other or they'll grow together and that they wrap them in plastic to keep them closed or they might open while they're small. They must also have lobster traps because a waiter was showing off two gigantic ones before he took them into the kitchen. I'm assuming they serve them for dinner.


The food


For 17 euros, you get a bottle of champagne and either 6 oysters or mussels and 3 oysters. The restaurant sits on an oyster farm and there's loads of them all around.  There's also a place where you can rent kayaks or dinghies and drive yourself. The speedboat the restaurant sends was full on the way so the ride was slow but we were the only ones on the way back so the driver sped. It was hot this morning but windy by the afternoon so it was chilly on the boat. And bumpy. Didn't help my back.

Tomorrow Nicole and I are taking trains to Perpignan France and plan to tour the city and pick up our rental car the next day.  The rides aren't too long but we have a long layover in Barcelona.




Comments

  1. John & TerryJune 17, 2019 at 6:13 AM

    now that you're an expert on oysters, will you be digging a pond and raising them when you return?

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    1. vJune 17, 2019 at 1:11 PM

      It actually doesn't look hard. All you need is an ocean.

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