Lloret de Mar - Fenals Beach

Saturdays and Sundays you can guarantee if the sun is out then there will be hardly a spare place on the beach, yesterday was no exception!

With the recent hot temperatures everyone headed for the beach this weekend and as the pictures show it was just a mass of colour with all the parasols!

Lloret de Mar - Clon Festival 2011

The Clon Festival got off to a fantastic start last night with the Achtung Band, a tribute to U2.

Whether you are a U2 fan or not...I never really have been but after last nights performance Achtung Band must have converted a few people such as me!

They came on stage at 10.15 pm and played  U2 hits almost 2 hrs non stop!

We took  300+ photographs and 8 videos, some of which are here, but you can CLICK HERE to be redirected to see lots more!

Lloret de Mar Clon Festival 2011

I recently posted a piece about this years Clon Festival the first of which is taking place tomorrow night. After seeing the poster it seems that the venue has changed from Placa Pere Torrent  where it took place last year, it is now back to the original place of  Roca d'en Maig at the beach..sorry for the mix up!

Barcelona Port

Independence of the Seas

Last Friday the cruise terminal at Barcelona had the busiest day for passengers so far this year. A total of 7 cruise liners arrived carrying over 27,000 passengers. The Costa Serena, Carnival Magic and the MSC Splendida  cruise liners were either starting or ending their journey but the other four - Noordam, Aida Vita, Thomson Dream, and the Independence of the Seas were passing through using Barcelona as one of their stop off points.

The next busiest day for the port will be August 20th when ) cruise liners will be arriving carrying 31,000 passengers to Barcelona.
 The USA leads the way for the cruise industry with Barcelona holding 4th position and the 1st in Europe, being one of the most favoured stops for cruise passengers.

Lloret de Mar Clon Festival 2011

At last the names for this years Clon Festival are finally out!

For those not familiar with this festival, its one of the biggest and best annual events in Lloret de Mar. Some of the best tribute acts are on stage in the Placa Pere Torrent (carousel square) starting in a few days time on 8th July with Achtung Band a tribute to U2. The next band to play on 22nd July will be a tribute to Abba with Abba Revival. This is the second time here for this Abba tribute band, we last saw them in August 2004, an excellent show! Next on stage 5th August will be the Exploding Boys - a strange name for a tribute to the Cure (or maybe not!) 

On 19th August is the fourth and final act for this year and will be Gansos Rosas,  if you can't guess this will be a Guns & Roses tribute act...I'm looking forward to that one!

If you are in or near Lloret for any of theses dates you really must try get to see at least one of the acts. It is a free show, you can buy drinks and a bite to eat such as burgers and hot dogs at the kiosks in the square. The shows usually start at 10.30 and go on until about midnight.

Go to the LLORET STUFF WEBSITE   to see photos from previous Clon Festival events.