St George's Day in LLoret

 This Saturday 23rd April is the day of St George, when on the promenade in front of the town hall a book and florists fair will be held. There are said to be 65 stalls taking part selling books of a wide variety of topics along with flower stalls. Its a custom that on this day men should buy their wives or lady friends a rose (or of course a very large bouquet would be acceptable!) and in return the women should give a book. I should think the wives will be buying DIY books for their husbands!
The book and flower fair will begin at 10am, and its hoped that this good weather we are having just now will hold out .... but rain is forecast for this weekend.

Lloret to Barcelona by Bus

I've recently been asked about how to travel from Lloret de Mar to Barcelona city centre by bus,  so here you can find a the latest timetable for anyone wanting to make their own way to see the sights of Barcelona. These times are for travel Mon - Fri. 
Lloret - Barcelona

• 6.35
• 7.35
• 8.00
• 9.05
• 10.05
• 10.30
• 13.45

Barcelona - Lloret

• 8.00
• 9.15
• 10.00
• 12.00
• 13.30
• 15.00
• 17.00
• 18.00
• 18.45
• 19.30
• 20.30

Lloret de Mar Luxury Hotel!

The go ahead has been given to convert the Sant Pere del Bosc monastery into a small luxury hotel. 1.5 € million will be invested to transform the building, which will house 19 high class suites as well as a spa and salt water pool, The monastery stands in a very privileged location surrounded by 220 hectares of forest.

Lloret de Mar Parade

 A Fantastic day out for all the family in Lloret yesterday!

Heres a short film show and a few still shots taken at the parade for Sant Antoni Abad in Lloret yesterday. They all gathered up near the Olympic Hotel then made slowly made their way down to the chuch via Calle Sant Pedro. From the church they headed down to the sea front where they rode 3 times around the paseo. The horses ranged from very young donkeys to large stallions and shire horses, hundreds of people lined the streets as the parade went by.

Lloret Sunday Market & Classic cars

 

 Its been a good day in Lloret today with plenty of activity in town and the weather was great with hardly a cloud in the sky!

The first stop for us today was to head down to the market and classic cars exhibition for some photos for the blog. There were only three cars there today so that was a disappointment, maybe they had all taken off somewhere else for the day with the weather being so good!

Most of the market stalls were selling second hand stuff, much of which any normal person would have thrown out years ago as you can see in the photos below!

Although some stalls were selling some nice things such as hand made jewellery, ornaments for the home and clothing.

After the market the horses and their riders were due in town for the Sant Antoni Abad festival so the next stop was to go to the church where they were all going to gather at 11.30...photos of which you can see here tomorrow.