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Location Date Barcelona 1373497200 Aiguablava 
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Location Date Mon, 08 July 2013 1373302016 Sun, 07 July 2013
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Well, I need to acknowledge Kyra when she does well -and she has done well with Aigua Blava. The place is a gem. The hotel is old, but steeped in tradition with its core value being service. Everything runs smoothly and is wonderful to enjoy.
Dinner last evening was OK - we were tired, to be honest. I think we all slept 10-11 hours and woke at 8:30am or so. We drifted down to breakfast overlooking the bay around Aigua Blava - lovely Spanish seaside scenery, cloudless skies, warm temperatures and people from all over Europe around us adding a wonderful continental flavour. Breakfast was leisurely - I think we spent over an hour grazing slowly through the buffet
We then trekked off for a 20-30 min walk to the local beach. It was maybe 100m wide and 80m deep - I am guessing there were 500-800 people wedged in, as they do in Europe. We found a spot in the shade and enjoyed swimming in the crystal clear water, and watching people. We sauntered back to enjoy a Spanish siesta before heading down to the pool for an hour or two with a book. After showering we headed up the hill to Begur for dinner. It was Sunday evening and the locals were out and about. The Place de la Ville was full of families heading to or from Mass, or enjoying drinks before dinner, or just walking. We found a table on the Place and again just enjoyed watching the world of Spain pass us by. We had a drink and some tapas before wandering around and finding a second restaurant for more tapas. Kyra and I have developed a taste for Sangria - by the jug - and this was a perfect accompaniment. We ate like the locals, finishing dinner close to 10pm.
There is so much to see on the Costa Brava - medieval cities and Dali museums, for example. I have to tell you that, on this trip anyway, we won't be seeing any of these things. This hotel, and this location, is just too perfect to waste. We are sleeping, swimming at the beach or the pool, enjoying wonderful food, watching Europeans for 6-8 different countries wandering by, experiencing a Spanish lifestyle, and enjoying some of the loveliest scenery Kyra and I have seen.
This place is magical and we are blessed to have found it. We are having too much fun experiencing Aigua Blava to want for anything else right now.
(Thank you, Richard and Elizabeth.)
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Weaze No words to express how beautiful this sounds - apart from magical. Definitely one to return to by the sounds of it. Enjoy, take care, and much love (and safe travels). W xo
P, F, R. We are pleased but relieved that you are enjoying Aigua Blava so much. We were both worried that you might not enjoy it as much as we did, frst in 1957, then in 1960 I think, and maybe afterwards but certainly again about 10 years' ago. Of course the hotel and the area have expanded over the years, but the same family have owned it and many of the staff have handed down their jobs to their children. If you go again, even without a computer system, they always remember you and most of the guests go from year to year. But I think I have told Kyra this. We hope that the rest of your stay there was/is as successful. All well here. Jamie and co came for dinner last night. Tim, the French boy, was much more talkative though M said afterwards that she had to work hard to achieve this. The whole family will have to be hospitable when you have one to stay, and R will have to work hard to be a good guest and to talk to his host family, and in particular the boy of his own age. Robby Deans has been sacked and Ewan MacKenzie has replaced him after last Saturday's disaster. Kevin Rudd is making new announcements every hour of the day, often from a school and hugging the children. Meantime, asylum seekers are flooding onto Xmas Island, over 1,000 in one ofthree boats yesterday. But that is nothing compared to those flooding into Spain, I guess.. It's still cold and wet here. Love from both of us, .