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Salou [Blog]

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Morning people. Start of day 3 ATM we have a bit of rain and it's a bit overcast. My phone says it should be sunny and 33 degrees lol. - prob just a blip. Laying by the pool. Kids have made pals already and have disappeared. Nice meal in the Orient Express - had a Pizza lol Working my way through Steve Jobs autobiography on the kindle. - pretty lazy first few days lol.

Salou- Arrival Today

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Evening All. So after like 3 hrs sleep and a early rise at 4am we were bound to the Airport by car after my Father (cheers Dad) kindly agreed to take us up in return for having free use of my car for 2 weeks... eh what a trade lol? We were at the airport at 6am and quickly checked in. Dumb ass here forgot to print the boarding pass so I wasnt exactly pleased at having to pay the 20 quid privelage to get my boarding pass - robbing bastards. [caption id="attachment_1082" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Andrew on the Iphone (His mums) ear phones in- like me except 27 years younger lol[/caption] [gallery] Anyway, despite that small error on my part, flight was on time, and not even a full flight.... 2hrs 40 min later we were at Reus and on way to Salou. - Arrived at Resort at just after 1pm. Then room wasnt ready upon our arrival but an hour later it was. So first impressions- pool is mega busy and tiny. We are slap bang in middle of the strip just off in a ...

5 Days to Go to our Hol...

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Well only 5 days to go until we fly out for a last minute holiday to Salou. After recent weeks of torrential rain, lack of a Summer at home and nothing but work, this holiday cant come at a better time. Fri pm I go into holiday mode and stop for 2 weeks and 2 days until August 12th. Fly out from Glasgow early on Sunday so Sat will be spent packing and sorting the kids last minute stuff. Still need to sort the passes to the water park and Barcelona trip. Thats my job tonight and Thurs.   Glad my brothers house sitting for me lol

23.7.12 - A Pish Day Off

Today's been a shit day off. Had planned a good cycle run this morning , got up at 8 AM to torrential hard hammering down rain. - in fact it's been like that all day. 825am RBS text to tell me I am away over my OD limit due to a PayPal transaction that should never have came off did - so that put me in a great mood. - so get that fixed. Lunch time - still raining. Put IMac on lots of noise and fatal error messages. - appears installed extra ram has fried - so spend next 3 hours trying to fix that. 6pm. - quick nap. Can't sleep so finish mac stuff. It's now back to normal. Look out window - still fucking raining. Bored oot my tits - thank fook we go on hol on sun. - CANT COME QUICK ENOUGH. 4 days to work and counting then off for 16 days

14.07.12

Enjoying a weekend off. And nice to see the sun out in sorts. Just been to gym and took kids for a swim, now chilli n watching some of the TDF. Tonight heading out for dinner in Ayr with some pals who we have not seen for a while. - should be fun. Like these lazy days lol.

Salou - Holiday booked !

Last night after about a week of looking we finally booked our 2012 holiday. This weathers been pissing me AFF So I told Maryann, get on that website. Here's a budget and get something booked. So we settled on Salou , main land Spain. A first for us. So only a 3 week wait. You have no idea how excited we are ! - LOL.