Excursions from Lloret de Mar

While your on holiday on the Costa Brava and you want a day out with a difference I recommend you book a trip to Rupit & Besalu with the Laietana excursion company.

After picking you up close to your hotel you will be driven through the Catalan countryside to Rupit where you will have free time to marvel at its original suspension bridge, one of the few surviving examples of its kind, walk through the ancient streets and browse around the shops where you can buy typical goods of the region.

From Rupit the coach will travel to the Sanctuary El Far from where you have one of the finest views of the Catalan region, after which you will be taken to the restaurant for a 3 course lunch with wine, sangria and coffee with brandy!......all included in the price of about €47.

After lunch and passing through Olot the coach will take you to Besalu where there will be free time to explore the cobbled streets of the village and admire its romanic bridge.
At the end of the tour you can sit back and relax on the coach while you are driven back to your resort and original pick up point. I advise you wear flat comfortable shoes for this day out as some of the streets in the villages are quite steep. For other days trips available from Lloret and surrounding resorts click here > LAIETANA EXCURSIONS

Tobacco Allowance from Spain

Stricter guidelines regarding the amount of cigarettes/tobacco you are allowed to take back to the UK are due to come into force as from 1st October. The new limit for cigs will drop to 800 per person instead of 3,200, tobacco allowance will be 1kg instead of 3kg.
Read the full document here > HM Revenue & Customs

As before it all depends on whether what you have in your case is for your own use ...or not!

Lloret de Mar News

  

A fire crew were called to the Surf Mar Hotel in Fenals yesterday afternoon where a fire broke out in one of the hotel rooms. The room was not occupied at the time so no one was injured during the incident, and damage was restricted to the rooms furnishings.

 

Catalan Day in Lloret de Mar

11th September is the national day of Catalonia, so there were all kinds of activities taking place in town today. Here's just a few photos of today's events near the Town Hall. All along the paseo were stalls selling local food produce, and local arts and craft items.

Land of the Giants!

The temperature today was 28ºc which I'm sure must have made it hard work for the Catalan ladies who sat there most of the day demonstrating their lace making skills.

Homemade pastries

Hand decorated glass and ceramics

Catalan meats

Lace making

Death in Barcelona after being hit by a falling sofa.

A 48 year old man died in Barcelona today, Friday, after being hit by a falling sofa last Wednesday. He was hit by the sofa, which had been hurled from a balcony during a private move.
It happened in Calle de Sant Pau in the Ravel area of the city, and the sofa had been thrown down by a friend of the victim from the second floor balcony above. It seems the friend below was trying to warn the friend above that there were people walking in the street when the piece of furniture hit the victim on the head.

He was taken to hospital in a serious condition, but died there on Friday.

It appears that after the two men established that the sofa did not fit down the stairs, so they decided to throw it off the balcony.

Read more: http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_31887.shtml#ixzz1XUYY4Vqr