Christmas & New Year in Spain

December 22/12/09

We were picked up from the door at 5.30am in the freezing cold and 6 inches of snow to be taken to Magor Services to meet up with our coach and our friends Pam and Cliff for the journey to Santa Suzanna Spain. We made good time to the ferry at Dover and was on the 1 15pm ferry. Once on the other side we were soon making progress to our overnight stop just south of Paris. An early start on Wednesday and we were soon seeing a difference in the temperature and the cloudy sky soon turned to blue. We arrived at the Florida Park Hotel around 6pm.

Thursday 24th Dec.

A half day trip to Gerona. In the evening it was the Christmas Gala Dinner All wine and champagne free.

Bernard and Santa

Me Bern Pam and Cliff

Me and Bern

Peter getting in on the act.

Bern with his new handbag

Hey Bern where did you get that bag

 

Us four again

And a good night was had by all

Friday 25th Dec. Christmas Day

After breakfast we went for a walk on the beach.

 A lot of people out taking photos of the sea.

 

Pam having a paddle

The camping site right on the beach

The next photos are  places visited Loret  Tossa  and Barcelona

We had temperatures of 23 No wonder most came home with colds.

Barcelona

In the Indoor Market

Just LOOK at the price of those Truffles

 

 

Some of the Statues

Inside the Hard Rock Cafe in Barcelona

 

Back at the hotel there was lots of entertainment going on

Fancy Dress

 

Spanish Dancers and lots more

Then there was the card school

 

New Years Eve.

And another Gala Dinner with free wine and champagne Bernard is missing from these photos as he was ill with the delli belly

and was unable to leave the bathroom.

New year was celebrated twice due to the time difference. So we had New Year Spanish Time and New Year UK Time.

 

1st January 2010

Bernard still not too well so Cliff and I went for a walk along the beach to take some photos.

 

 

 

 

The Florida Park Hotel

 

Bernard and Pam on the Balcony

 

Saturday 2nd Jan 2010 time to make an early start and head up to our overnight stop just south of Paris

Sunday 3rd Jan 2010 and another early start to get to Calais for the ferry back to Dover all went very smooth and we arrived home around 7pm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd to 8th Dec in France

WEDNESDAY 2nd Dec and we are on our way to Portsmouth for the 11pm overnight Ferry to CAEN France with our friends Sally & Philip who own a cottage in South Brittany.

We have been going to the cottage with them for some 17 years and we really enjoy it there.

This visit was going to be different as over the last year they have been having extensive alterations done and we were looking forward to seeing it all.

The Cottage with the new extension on the left side.

New Swimming Pool

The new kitchen

Utility Room

The New Lounge Extension

Inside the Lounge Extension

Philip relaxing  and Sally on the computer

The dining Room

Bernard relaxing in the dining room by the amazing wood burning stove

Now this wood burning stove served both the dining room and the lounge and could be fed with logs from both sides

Pool photos taken at night

Near the cottage is the Brest and Nantes Canal some of the photos taken near by

 

Out and about in the supermarket the assistant posed for me to take this photo

CHRISTMAS HOLLY IN THE COTTAGE GARDEN

All to soon it was time to pack up and make our way back to Caen for the overnight crossing to Portsmouth and home again. The ferry crossing was very good and we had the lounge to ourselves.

Bernard early morning

Imagine this in the summer

A lovely holiday away in France.

Until the next time