The Costa Brava is a beautifully rugged region of Catalonia in northeast Spain. It stretches along 124 miles of Spain’s Mediterranean coast from the French border down as far as Blanes, which is around 40 miles from Barcelona. I’ve visited the area as a guest of the Costa Brava Tourist Board, first on a BritMums […]
Park Hotel San Jorge, Platja D’Aro
I spent a few days on the Costa Brava in Spain in October with my husband and kids (17 and 12 years old at the time). I’ve already written about our zip wire adventure, the cooking workshop, and the astonishing human towers which we saw in Girona. This post is about the hotel which we […]
Fish tour and cooking in Palamós
One October I went on a trip to the Costa Brava with my husband, 17 year-old daughter and 12 year-old son. The Costa Brava is in the North of Spain on the Mediterranean coast, right up near the French border, and is a beautiful area. I’ve already written about our zip-wire adventure and about the […]
Zip wire adventure on the Costa Brava
During the October half term break I spent an exhilarating morning walking on high ropes suspended between trees and whizzing along on zip wires. I was with my husband and kids at Parc Aventura in Sant Feliu de Guixols in Spain’s Costa Brava. Parc Aventura It took us a while to find the park as […]
Human towers in Girona
I watch the small girl as she climbs up the man’s back – and I marvel at her agility. She looks to be about five or six years old. The man stands still, leaning in to the rest of the group as she climbs. The child moves quickly, her knees splayed sideways, frog-like. Everyone in the square […]
Holiday snaps: Cadaqués, Costa Brava
Visiting Spain’s Costa Brava was a revelation. It’s a beautiful area in the North of Spain on the Mediterranean coast. I took this photo in the characterful town of Cadaqués, inspiration for artists such as Salvador Dalí who had a summer house here. I was with my daughter and a small group of other family bloggers […]
Things to do on the Costa Brava with kids
Beyond the famous sandy beaches and tourist resorts there are plenty of other interesting things for kids to do on the Costa Brava. The beautiful and rugged Costa Brava stretches along 124 miles of Spain’s Mediterranean coast from the French border down as far as Blanes. I had a great family trip there this year with […]
Dalí and the Costa Brava
Salvador Dalí, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, spent most of his life on the Costa Brava. I visited the area recently with my eldest on a parent blogger trip, and soon after we arrived we found ourselves sitting at Dalí’s favourite table at Restaurant Duran in Figueres. The table is in an […]
Cap de Creus by catamaran
Catalonia’s beautiful Costa Brava is the easternmost point of Spain, bordering France on the Mediterranean coast. I was there during the half-term holiday with the eldest on a BritMums parent blogger trip, as guests of the Costa Brava tourist board. I’ve spent a lot of time in Spain, but this was my first visit to […]
Indoor skydiving on the Costa Brava
Shoulder to shoulder today is a blog hop – series of blog posts – hosted by different bloggers each day in support of Emma Day over at crazywithtwins. 27 year-old Emma is mother to a 5 year-old daughter and twin baby girls, and she has thyroid cancer. When Emma found out that the high dose of […]
