New sports playground near us

The city council of Empuriabrava is building a playground very near the entrance to the campsite, by the river 'Salins'. It is intended for adults, to do some physical exercise, and it can be a great complement to jogging along the bicycle road.
While the exact place is a bit small for these sport devices, and surely too near the car lanes, it is nonetheless an improvement.

Christmas 2010

This winter we are just arranging the garden, painting and repairing, so I thought that, instead of the usual video of progress, I could put a small video of my daughter, made this last weekend.

What color to choose

In the swimming pool area, the entrance to the machine room was of natural concrete. We are now looking to integrate it more in the environment, and Vadim is painting it in dark grey. We will see...

Winter in the campsite

The gardeners are now collecting the last leaves that have fallen from the trees, here you see Mamadu in a bungalow area. Hopefully this will be the last time in the year, because most of the leaves are already in the ground.

Final street delimiter

Street delimiters are allways a bad solution, but there seems to be no other way to avoid parking and to look for the safety of pedestrians. So... here is the final shape of the street delimiter, made by us, it weights about 150 Kg, two colors to be easily seen, and wood at the side, so that if a vehicle touches it, the damage it is not so bad. Hopefully, the colors, materials and shape should integrate well around the supermarket, with the current dust beens. It can be used also to sit down, for a single person it is rather confortable.

Gardeners at work

Now that the 2010 season is over, the gardeners are trying to quickly grow grass again in the campingplots that were damaged by plastic covers. Fortunately it is still warm, so there should be enough time until the winter temperatures come.

Testing street delimiters

Somewhere at the end of this summer, we have been testing some shapes and colors for street delimiters, heavy pieces that we are going to put in the wide street in front of the supermarket, in order to avoid bad parking. We are also trying that they can be used for the people to sit upon, a kind of very small bench.

In a few weeks we will show you some of these pieces already in place.

Improvements in our web site

As promised at the beginning of September, we continue improving our website, to hopefully give a more modern and attractive experience. Now there are also some simple animation effects, and all the information has been revised to assure that the links work as intended and that the content is up to date. The website is already prepared for the 2011 season, you will see by default the 2011 prices and also the 2011 events. The availability page also focuses totally in the next 2011 season.

Some more electrical heaters

Apartments at both floors and also bungalows for 5 persons (behind the bar Amberes) were dependent on the gasoil heater in the showers building near the old swimming pool, from that heater came the hot water.

These last days, Antonio and Vadim are modifying both types of accommodations, installing electrical heaters in each apartment and bungalow, so that the hot water comes directly from inside each one. This will avoid some delay problems in the low season, also avoid some heat losses in the way, and be less complex to operate.

Painting again and again

It is again time to re-paint the wood around the swimming pool, the lifeguards are using a mixture of natural oils and teinture. This will have to be done regularly each 3-4 months.

Today it is sunday but there is a strong fresh air, tramuntana, that seems to scare to the possible swimmers, although it is sunny and the water is not at all cold, or at least warmer than in the beach.