just another morning here » el campello http://tworedboots.co.uk/blog a miracle that comes around every day of the year Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:13:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Spanish half term 7: Swimming and Climbing http://tworedboots.co.uk/blog/2009/02/19/spanish-half-term-7-swimming-and-climbing/ http://tworedboots.co.uk/blog/2009/02/19/spanish-half-term-7-swimming-and-climbing/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:35:14 +0000 Sarah http://tworedboots.co.uk/blog/?p=2363 We’d planned, after brunch, to take a trip on the coastal tram all the way to the end of the line in Alicante, then head back to a beach afterwards, but it turned the other way around – mainly because we couldn’t get the ticket machine to work on the first tram we boarded!
So we ended up at El Campello again and the children swam in the sea for all of ten minutes – madness! But they really enjoyed it. Abbie had bought goggles and Joe had bought a snorkel the day before, especially for hunting for underwater treasures … think they may have found a shell or two ;)

Campello beach Finally warming up after a swim Campello beach
El Campello beach Campello beach Anna Argh, it's cold! Fun! Running away from waves

After they’d warmed up again we bought chocolate instead of ice creams, then got back on the tram and went to Alicante where we climbed up el Castillo Santa Barbara – some of us more happily than others (you will notice that the girls aren’t in any of these photos!).

Castillo Santa Barbara Castillo Santa Barbara Joe and me almost at the top of the Castillo

Must also mention the strange yoghurts that we had after tea, apparently biscuit flavour! ‘sabor a galleta’, with a picture of a biscuit on the label. Made us laugh, anyway! Ended the day with films and scrabble again :) A lovely penultimate day.

]]> http://tworedboots.co.uk/blog/2009/02/19/spanish-half-term-7-swimming-and-climbing/feed/ 2 Spanish half term 6: Finally made it to the beach! http://tworedboots.co.uk/blog/2009/02/18/spanish-half-term-6-finally-made-it-to-the-beach/ http://tworedboots.co.uk/blog/2009/02/18/spanish-half-term-6-finally-made-it-to-the-beach/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:21:28 +0000 Sarah http://tworedboots.co.uk/blog/?p=2361 Late getting up again, but eventually made it down to the coastal tram and popped along to El Campello again. This time we walked along the whole length of the beach, hunting for shells and generally bimbling around. Had a nice lunch in a cafe overlooking the beach, then hit the supermarket for more food on the way home.
The i-shell Sliding down a sand cliff Family with mountains in the background Obelisk on the beach Palms on the beach Seaweed balls Looking in rock pools Joe waiting for dinner Steve and me Lunch in the cafe Singing pink dog Waiting for the coastal train home

Must mention a tiny bit of shopping that we did – Joe bought a snorkel for the sea (as you do) and I bought Abbie this dress – there was one a couple of sizes too small for her in the toy boxes at the villa; she’d found it and worn it a few times and looked gorgeous, so I wanted to buy her one of her own. I’m probably biased but I think she is beautiful :)
Snorkel Snorkel Snorkelling in the jacuzzi My Spanish beauty My Spanish beauty My Spanish beauty

Late afternoon hot tub sessions for all, then a film, tea, tetris puzzles and scrabble :)

Evening game of scrabble Scrabble board

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