18 June, 2007

Nice weekend!

Friday was crazy. I arranged all my classes to finish before midday so we could leave to the Costa Brava as soon as possible, because we book a mobile home for the weekend in the lovely L'Amphora camping.
But things are never easy, not matter how well you plan things, so the day before I've got a text message in my phone saying that we needed to sign my son in his new school at 13:30 on Friday. It took us a whole hour to fill the form and give the school all the papers they need, things such as copies of parent's ID, all his vaccinations (we've lost P's red health record book so we have to go and ask his local GP for a certificate saying that he seems to be as a healthy as he looks), pictures of the kid, previous schools reports, etc etc.

Whatever!! After that we did manage to be at the campsite by 4pm and after downloading the car we all went straight into the sea. We stayed there until 9pm. Lovely!!
The caravan was small but comfortable, with one double bedroom and another with two small single beds, a nice loo, shower (cold and hot water), small but well equipped kitchen (we only used the fridge) a sort of small living room area and a patio surrounded by hedges and cover by trees where they have a table and chairs. Very nice and cozy.
We didn't do much and it was so nice!
We ate mostly sandwiches at a nice table outside the caravan and we once we went outside the camp to a lovely restaurant just opposite us.
Just a short walk from the caravan (5 minutes?) we had the see, warm and with a nice, long, sandy beach. Also we had a big swimming pool.
We played pool, swam, talked and walked, and I read almost half a book, something unheard off since we're in this flat as I'm always busy.
My dad was deeply impressed as he said he's never seen such an organised and clean camping. I think he expected us to take him to the wilderness, as one does when camping in South America, and was pleasantly surprised by the 'civilization' of it all.

This was like a pre-view because we booked a place for us all to go, this time with our tent, for the first 10 days of August. Now we can plan our trip better and we're all looking forward to that!!
And we all came back really relaxed, half tanned and ready to go the final few days until the holidays.

Sunday night, as we were trying to sleep we were woken up by a terrible racket, fireworks, bombs and people driving around blowing their horns very loudly. All after midnight! Today we learnt that all that was the celebrations of the Real Madrid's fan because they won some cup or other. I couldn't care less but it surprise me that people celebrated it here and so loudly because the Real Madrid is the eternal rival of the local team, the Barcelona, and most people here are Barza fans.
Of course, you may have heard of this and seen the pictures because it was the farewell game of David Beckham, who's going to L.A. after this. And because Victoria, the former Posh Spice girl, is now blonder than David.

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