Lloret de Mar Carnival

Lloret de Mar Carnival

Next weekend is Carnival Weekend. The people of Lloret go to an awful lot of trouble and expense at carnival time, a procession is held on Saturday afternoon and repeated on Sunday morning. Saturday night is party time and the bars and discoteques expect to get a good turn out.
All ages young and old will take part in the procession, in extravagent costumes and floats decked out in fantastic scenes and backgrounds.

Unfortunately the weather always seems to take a turn for the worse at carnival time- and the procession ends up being a rather soggy affair.

The above photos were taken from the Lloret de Mar Carnival in 2003, on one occasion when it did not rain.

Lloret de Mar Carnival

Cheap Flights- Costa Brava

Visitors from the UK can now fly to Girona Airport for less than the cost of a 50 mile train journey in the UK.
Ryanair flies to Girona Airport from Blackpool, Bournemouth, Dublin, East Midlands, Glasgow, Liverpool, London Luton and London Stansted. If you book a few weeks in advance flights can be had for just 1 penny. Airport taxes will put the minimum cost of a round trip up to around 40 euros.
A taxi from Girona airport to Lloret will cost 42 euros one way, although there are private people willing to do it for less. For daytime flights there is a bus from Girona Airport to Lloret de Mar, Blanes, Malgrat de Mar, Santa Susanna, Calella and Tossa de Mar. All buses will wait for delayed inbound passengers to come through arrivals.

With tobacco and cigarettes still being surprisingly cheap the area is becoming increasingly popular with UK visitors who wish to take advantage of the cheap flights and stock up on smoking supplies. It is permitted to take 3200 cigarettes from Spain to the UK.
For more info on cheap flights visit www.ryanair.com

The Monastery of Lloret de Mar (again)

Another photo of Sant Pere del Bosc from Tuesday's walk. Taken through the blossom on the trees, showing how mild the weather is in Lloret for this time of the year.
Also a picture of the pathway, which leads upto the Monastery.

The Monastery of Lloret de Mar.

A view of the monastery along with the wording on the plaque outside the gates telling visitors the history of the building. (Click on the photo to enlarge the print).
If you like to walk this is a very long but pleasant walk through the woods, (approx 4hrs there and back). Part of the monastery is now used as a restaurant.

Taking the road from beside the Caprabo supermarket in Fenals, will eventually bring you to the monastery of Sant Pere del Bosc. On the way passing through the urbanisation of Condado Jarruco (lots of nice expensive villas!)
You will also pass on the way, the back of Waterworld and also the Angel Golf Course.

Lloret de Mar Wildlife!

Today we have had the warmest day so far this year in Lloret (20c in the shade).
So this morning we set off for a walk inland towards the back of Lloret, this is what we came across! A small herd of goats, which belong to a Bar/Restaurant (no, they are not on the menu!)
They are allowed to roam free out in the woodland, but they do have their own fenced in area at the side of the bar.

It's small unexpected things like this which make it so enjoyable living in Spain.