Lloret de Mar

(For Granny - an update of what I've been up to in Spain :))

It's summer so naturally the weather here in Spain is unbearably hot (quite like England, I imagine).

In order to gain temporary relief from the heat, yesterday Sam and I headed up north to the Costa Brava, to Lloret de Mar in search of refreshment.

We found the beach quickly after arrival and you could tell it was popular with tourists because in shops the people talked to us in English. There were boats to hire, deck chairs and umbrellas and lots of languages on the beach. We went swimming to cool off after just under 2 hours of public transport to get there, and then went up around the cliffs to have a look at the castle and the coves further around.

The colour of the water was beautiful and there were lots of places you could go swimming. In the next cove around from the main beach there was a massive rock in the water and some teenagers had swum out to it, climbed up and were daring each other to jump, waiting to see who'd be brave and go first. Away from the main beach it was less touristy and you could hear the birds making a racket in the trees, and every now and then see the tourist boats sail past as they do a quick tour of the coast.

Having eaten lunch on a cliff looking over a cove, we spent the afternoon in the town and looking in some of the shops and cooling ourselves down with some ice cream before heading back down the coast to the city..