End of the Carnival week

Today was the last day of the week long carnival celebrations with the strange custom of 'burying the sardine' complete with a horse drawn carriage, coffin and wailing mourners! All this started off in Placa de Torrent at 8pm this evening, from here the procession made its way towards Sant Pedro and then to the Town Hall where more mourners were gathering. After the speeches etc which took place on the stage the large paper mâché sardine was taken over to the beach and burned, strange customs indeed!

 The procession makes its way down towards the town hall.

 Preparing the food for the mourners!

The sardine is 'cremated' on the beach.

Sale time again in Lloret

Botiga Al Carrer

The outdoor sales event is again taking place this Saturday 8th March from 10am until 8pm. You can usually find some great bargains as you rummage through the last of the clothing, accessories, toiletries that are set out on the stalls in the streets. 

The day after Sunday 9th is the second Sunday of the month which means that the monthly market will be taking place at 10am in the carousel square, this does seem to be getting more popular these days with quite a few more people setting up stalls there.

Also there should be several classic cars on show at the same time...hopefully we'll have good weather over the weekend for both events.

Cat Museum in Lloret

'Casa de Los Gatos'

I have been aware of the cat Museum in Lloret de Mar for some years now but have never visited it until a few days ago....I'm so glad I did! You don't have to be a cat lover to appreciate all the items in this charming little museum in Lloret, it really is a fantastic collection of art pieces, ornaments of glass, pottery, toys, kitchenware, needle work and household items. Altogether there are more than 10,000 pieces in this private collection which is set on 2 floors. It's almost like walking around someone's home the way it is set out. The entrance fee is only €3 which will include a very helpful guided tour to tell you all about the collection. We were shown around by Salome, she answered all our questions and made the tour very interesting.

Just across from the beach in a little side street, the address is C/San Albert 10 and you will easily recognise this charming little entrance with the huge cat!

 Casa de los Gatos have a website which gives full details of opening times, prices, how to contact them and coming events, just CLICK HERE 

Lloret Carnival Parade

We don't normally go to watch both Carnival parades but as it was such a nice morning today we had a walk just to try get a few more photos. That was the intentions but we got a little carried away! As we were in such a good spot in the midle of the road at the top of 'Avenida Just Marles' to see all the floats passing by we ended up with more than 700 shots - far more than we needed but here are some of my favourites from today!

More photos from this years Carnival at -
  LLORET DE MAR CARNIVAL

Lloret Carnival 2014

This weekends carnival has so far been massive success...as it usually is! We were there yesterday to watch the 2 hour long parade along Lloret de Mar seafront and take photos for the website and blog. Thousands of people lined the route as all the floats passed by, luckily the weather did stay fine although it did feel a little cool as the sun was dropping. Well done to everyone who took part you all put on a fantastic show.
We have lots more photos which you can see over on the Lloret de Mar website here....Lloret de Mar Stuff