Apr 11, 2013 - Spain

Omg just arrived in Spain, ok now where is grandma and grandad hi grandma(she couldn't see me ha ha).where is the car.wow look how pretty Spain is. we're here omg look how beautiful the house is and it's three stories high, it has a roof where you can walk on and it has a view of the pool oh did I tell you that they have a pool. The next day I went in the pool and it was freezing cool, zac was a wimp as he jumped in then got out and went straight inside the house, it was really funny. It was time to go out for tea I had a burger it was...

Apr 11, 2013 - SPAIN

We arrived in Spain and so far it's beautiful and soooooo hot.On Tuesday mum g'ma and i had Lasagna for our tea on the other hand dad and g'dad had Chilli Pork which was very hot but yummy so my g'dad said!!!!!I'll just take his word for it:). G'mas and G'dads house is lovely it's a three storied house,Beth and i are on the second floor mum and dad are on the couch(ha ha)But it folds into a queen size bed. Yesterday we went to mini golf.We all played but grandad just kept the scores.The course was on top of a hotel,we had to get a lift to...

May 7, 2012 - Torrevieja to Playa de la Huerta near Alicante

No wind this morning and as Francis wanted to check a couple of things at the top of the mast and straighten the wind vane, he donned the harness, attached it to the main halyard and Jane winched him up to the top. That was the easy bit from her point of view, using the electric winch, but lowering him down was rather more nerve racking as it had to be done manually. All went well, but not something we want to do too often. The inverter hasn’t been working for some time and we finally worked out that it was the fuse that had blown and...

May 6, 2012 - Mar Menor to Torrevieja

We’d planned to go kayaking around the salt marshes on the strip of land separating the Mar Manor from the Med but with 19 knots of wind, kayaking would have been extremely hard, not to mention wet, work, so we set off up the coast instead. There were quite a few other yachts out sailing including Spanish, Australian & French. We had lovely sail to Torrevieja where we had to moor stern-to in a very narrow space with a boat either side and quite a bit of wind – all good experience I’m sure – Francis did a great job manoeuvring us in. 11...

Jul 25, 2002 - torrevieja, spain

hey, My 2nd vacation was more adventure than the 1st one. we had a 23hours drive from hasselt(belgium)to torrevieja. we went with 2 cars and 6 persons. torrevieja is a nice not-crowded touristic place. you encounter many spanish tourists. there are cosy bars and we discovered a PACHA disco. very good music and sphere. we had a few foam-parties. we stayed for 2 weeks. the weather was excellent. and dominique had to stay in jail for two days, cause he was to drunk and to laisy to walk home from pacha that he stole a van. so he was caught in a...