A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Once again Isobel sorts out our annual holiday, and this time it's to Lloret de Mar and the budget-friendly Rosamar Garden Resort hotel. However, when we get there we find that our apartment isn't available on account of some flooding-related incident so we get stuffed into one room with a couple of double beds in it, although the upside of this is that Isobel trades the compensatory offer of an upgrade to full board for a week of free parking in the hotel car park - saving about £12 a day. The other thing we notice when we get there is that the weather's not brilliant, as it's lashing rain when we land and lashes rain the next day when we first head out to explore the nearby area.

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The long walkway to the terminal, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

The long walkway to the terminal

Bits of Stansted are curiously empty, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Bits of Stansted are curiously empty

Isobel and Harry head off to departures, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Isobel and Harry head off to departures

Fred roams around , A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Fred roams around

We hang out in our usual secret seating area, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

We hang out in our usual secret seating area

A Ruinair 737 taxis around, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

A Ruinair 737 taxis around

A 737 is refuelled, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

A 737 is refuelled

Stansted's fire-training dummy aircraft, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Stansted's fire-training dummy aircraft

The fields of Essex, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

The fields of Essex

Some amusing tractor tram lines, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Some amusing tractor tram lines

The M11 motorway snakes its way to London, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

The M11 motorway snakes its way to London

A rainbow caused by a polarising filter, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

A rainbow caused by a polarising filter

A solitary cloud balloons up from the cloud deck, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

A solitary cloud balloons up from the cloud deck

Somewhere near Barcelona on the Catalan coast, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Somewhere near Barcelona on the Catalan coast

Barcelona's El Prat airport, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Barcelona's El Prat airport

The weather doesn't look too promising on landing, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

The weather doesn't look too promising on landing

Fred heads off the plane, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Fred heads off the plane

Glass and tubes in El Prat airport, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Glass and tubes in El Prat airport

We check the instructions for the car hire, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

We check the instructions for the car hire

Isobel takes photos of existing damage, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Isobel takes photos of existing damage

We end up in La Cova bar for a drink, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

We end up in La Cova bar for a drink

Isobel tries to work out the drinks pricing, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Isobel tries to work out the drinks pricing

Harry gets some food in from the buffet, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Harry gets some food in from the buffet

Some kids are sliding down the handrail, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Some kids are sliding down the handrail

Isobel tries out the hotel bar for the only time, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Isobel tries out the hotel bar for the only time

There's some sort of 'entertainment' going on, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

There's some sort of 'entertainment' going on

Some boys buy illuminated guff from Mr Goody-goody, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Some boys buy illuminated guff from Mr Goody-goody

The view out of our temporary bedroom, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

The view out of our temporary bedroom

Fred and Harry wait around near reception, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Fred and Harry wait around near reception

Harry looks out at the Mediterranean, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Harry looks out at the Mediterranean

The wide expanse of the almost-empty beach, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

The wide expanse of the almost-empty beach

Fred's got his hoody up as it starts raining, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Fred's got his hoody up as it starts raining

Lloret de Mar's seafront strip, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Lloret de Mar's seafront strip

A leather good shop on the seafront, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

A leather good shop on the seafront

The boys on the main strip in the rain, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

The boys on the main strip in the rain

It's raining in Lloret, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

It's raining in Lloret

Fred near the hotel entrance, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Fred near the hotel entrance

Harry looks at legs of Jamón Iberico, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Harry looks at legs of Jamón Iberico

Isobel and Harry in the local supermarket, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Isobel and Harry in the local supermarket

Fred waits by the fruit and vegetables, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Fred waits by the fruit and vegetables

Harry looks at a closed-down hotel, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Harry looks at a closed-down hotel

A framed view of the Castell de Lloret, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

A framed view of the Castell de Lloret

Love-locks on a rusty chain, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Love-locks on a rusty chain

The deserted beach of Lloret de Mar, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

The deserted beach of Lloret de Mar

Isobel near the fishing boat Jordi, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Isobel near the fishing boat Jordi

Harry's got an umbrella, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Harry's got an umbrella

Isobel and Harry looks out over Lloret de Mar, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Isobel and Harry looks out over Lloret de Mar

Castell de Llloret, actually built in the 1930s, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Castell de Llloret, actually built in the 1930s

The bar is deserted, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

The bar is deserted

A view over the sea, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

A view over the sea

Some dude stands on the rocks, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Some dude stands on the rocks

Harry hides behind his umbrella, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Harry hides behind his umbrella

Another fishing boat on the seafront, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Another fishing boat on the seafront

Hundreds of stones with messages on, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Hundreds of stones with messages on

Café culture along the seafront, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Café culture along the seafront

The Hotel Rosamar Maritim is papered up for winter, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

The Hotel Rosamar Maritim is papered up for winter

A Lloret tat shop, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

A Lloret tat shop

Funky Vins graffiti, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

Funky Vins graffiti

A sewing machine embroiders a name into a teeshirt, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

A sewing machine embroiders a name into a teeshirt

On the Avenida de Joan Llaverias, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

On the Avenida de Joan Llaverias

A creperie dude does his thing, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

A creperie dude does his thing

A back street 'eetcafe', A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

A back street 'eetcafe'

We play Yahtzee in our apartment room, A Trip to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain - 27th October 2024

We play Yahtzee in our apartment room

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The long walkway to the terminal

The long walkway to the terminal

Bits of Stansted are curiously empty

Isobel and Harry head off to departures

Fred roams around

We hang out in our usual secret seating area

A Ruinair 737 taxis around

A 737 is refuelled

Stansted's fire-training dummy aircraft

The fields of Essex

Some amusing tractor tram lines

The M11 motorway snakes its way to London

A rainbow caused by a polarising filter

A solitary cloud balloons up from the cloud deck

Somewhere near Barcelona on the Catalan coast

Barcelona's El Prat airport

The weather doesn't look too promising on landing

Fred heads off the plane

Glass and tubes in El Prat airport

We check the instructions for the car hire

Isobel takes photos of existing damage

We end up in La Cova bar for a drink

Isobel tries to work out the drinks pricing

Harry gets some food in from the buffet

Some kids are sliding down the handrail

Isobel tries out the hotel bar for the only time

There's some sort of 'entertainment' going on

Some boys buy illuminated guff from Mr Goody-goody

The view out of our temporary bedroom

Fred and Harry wait around near reception

Harry looks out at the Mediterranean

The wide expanse of the almost-empty beach

Fred's got his hoody up as it starts raining

Lloret de Mar's seafront strip

A leather good shop on the seafront

The boys on the main strip in the rain

It's raining in Lloret

Fred near the hotel entrance

Harry looks at legs of Jamón Iberico

Isobel and Harry in the local supermarket

Fred waits by the fruit and vegetables

Harry looks at a closed-down hotel

A framed view of the Castell de Lloret

Love-locks on a rusty chain

The deserted beach of Lloret de Mar

Isobel near the fishing boat Jordi

Harry's got an umbrella

Isobel and Harry looks out over Lloret de Mar

Castell de Llloret, actually built in the 1930s

The bar is deserted

A view over the sea

Some dude stands on the rocks

Harry hides behind his umbrella

Another fishing boat on the seafront

Hundreds of stones with messages on

Café culture along the seafront

The Hotel Rosamar Maritim is papered up for winter

A Lloret tat shop

Funky Vins graffiti

A sewing machine embroiders a name into a teeshirt

On the Avenida de Joan Llaverias

A creperie dude does his thing

A back street 'eetcafe'

We play Yahtzee in our apartment room