Magnifico Menorca

While England has endured another wet and soggy July, we have spent the last week in magnificent Menorca, sister island to Majorca off the coast of Spain. We stayed in a nice resort in Arenal D'en Castell, on the northern coast, overlooking the superb beach. In complete contrast to England, the weather was beautiful, 30 degrees every day and not a cloud to be seen. The kids had the times of their lives and we couldn't get them off the beach or out of one of the 4 hotel swimming pools. We went 'all inclusive' so had access to an endless supply of meals, snacks and drinks (including alcohol) and we were pleasantly surprised by the quality of food. There was constant entertainment for young and old and the kids' 'minidisco' every evening was a huge hit - the German song 'das rote pferd' about a red horse sent the crowd into a frenzy (see video at bottom). We had tribute bands playing ABBA, The Temptations, The Four Tops and Take That. There were acrobats, Brazilian dancers and even performing parrotts. Enough to keep the kids and adults occuppied until 11pm every night. The only draw back about the trip was our appalling hotel room. Reminisant of school camp - long, dark, narrow corridors along concrete floors leading to hundreds of identical dorm rooms. Each room (dorm) - no bigger than a shoe box - had a couple of stretcher type "beds" (careful not to sneeze or the bed will collapse) and a basic utalitarian bathroom (no bigger than a matchbox) - Club Med it wasn't! Rumour has it that the Brits were put up in these type of rooms (appropiatly called, "Block B") while the Italians, Germans and Spanish were in the slightly more upmarket, "Block A". This didn't stop us having a great time though. We met a lovely English family from Derbyshire who were besotted with Ethan - their three kids (Thomas, 13, Tanya 11 and Todd, 8) fussed over Ethan, fed, carried him, played with him and chased him all over the resort. They were great with Noah too. We look forward to meeting up with them again in England.
Back to the grind now with Mark working the next 2 weekends. It's school holidays so Meaghan has both boys at home for the next few weeks - HELP!!