Ryanair, New Routes

Ryanair has announced four new routes starting from Girona airport in October. The new destinations are Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Malaga. Flights to the Canaries will begin at the end of October while the Malaga flight will commence on the 1st October.

Ryanair is now the 2nd largest airline to operate in Spain, and its hoped with the new routes 200,000 more passengers will pass through Girona airport.

Lloret de Mar - Tour Bus

Ever since the Touristic Train and the large open top bus ceased to be used in Lloret there has been nothing to show holiday makers the best views of Lloret de Mar. Just recently though a new service has solved the problem!
This is the more frequently run and very distinctive looking bright green open top bus.

With this new bus you have the choice of either 1, 2 or 3 day pass which allows you to 'hop on' and 'hop off' at the many places of interest the bus visits.
In Lloret the bus will take you to Santa Cristina, Pinya de Rosa gardens, Santa Clotilde Gardens and the Castle St Joan.

You can view the PUJOL website for full details of the bus timetables and prices.

Homes Under the Hammer!

Ever since we bought our apartment in Lloret, this building has always been derelict and home to the odd squatter now and again! The garden was over run with shrubs and weeds, so much so that we could only ever see part of the building.
Maybe 3-4 months ago now we noticed that someone has begun to clear all the garden and empty the place of all the rubbish in there. All the window frames have been taken out and it sounds as though they are knocking down walls or something inside. Even with the way it looks now is a vast improvment to how it used to be!
It will be interesting to see how the villa will look if, and when it's completed. We have the 'before' picture lets see how long it is before we get the 'after' one!

(I'm sure this will be of interest to Julie and Ray in Holmfirth!!)

Lloret de Mar - Beatles Tribute

Last nights Clon Festival was a massive success, this was the second time we had seen 'Abbey Road' the Beatles tribute band. They had to abandon their show in August last year owing to a very bad storm which started not long after they had come onto the open air stage.
So everyone was there to see them perform and finally complete their show.

What a show it was!
The area where they played was packed with 'Beatles' fans, they did a very good selection of songs from just about every stage of the Beatles career, and went on for much longer than the usual 2hrs.

Lloret de Mar - Fenals Beach Today.

Here's a short clip of photos we took today down on the beach in Fenals and from above in the woods.
As you can see its quite packed, but still the bars and hotels in town are not very busy, some businesses are having their worst year yet.
So its highly likely that a large percentage of the people on the beach today are locals who have their own property in and around Lloret and like to spend their week- ends on the beach.