Hi Jackie
Its been a while since last contact and as things seem a bit quiet thought I would tell you about my first winter in Lloret.
For all you living in Lloret there’s no need to tell you it can get COLD during the winter months and as so many places cater for the summer heat it can be a bit miserable at times!!!
Well in the 70s Thomsons used to sent the “golden oldies” to Lloret by the plane load for anything up to 3 months, dead cheap all staying at what was then the San Marti Park hotel now called “Don Juan” also 2 other hotels adjacent now part of “Guitart” but then called “San Marti dos” & Felipe3.
It was hilarious on arrival days because everyone wanted a room with sun well obviously all the people who had arrived the weeks before had grabbed them, so every week on Friday morning it was room change, the queue went out the door!!!! One lot would take a key go inspect the new room and if it was better swap their original key, they were told they had 10 mins to change as others were waiting for their original room, and so it went on people dragging half opened cases up and down stairs trying to find Perfection for the 3 months of bliss??? On their winter break.
The antics they got up to during their stay were something else, they were on half board basis so the waiters at breakfast literally did a search as they left the dining room, confiscating bread rolls, jam, tea bags, butter. Their rooms represented a cafe with wardrobe drawers being used to prepare lunch with all the ill-gotten gains from breakfast or any other place they could get “freebees” from.
I told all your readers before about the time one old boy set the hotel on fire by putting his electric cup tea heater in his bed because it was cold, that was life for my first winter in Lloret.
I’ll tell you next time about when one dear old soul passed away and me conducting the funeral? A sad but hilarious time
Kindest regards
David Buckland
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