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The Magic of Majorca with David, Åse, Jamie & Netty

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  The Magic of Majorca The sun was shining and we couldn't be happier to be here! The hotel pool was the perfect way to cool down and we loved playing games and practising our swimming.  It was a hard life relaxing on the sun bed, topping up our tans!  It was time for our best Robin Hood impersonations down at the archery range. Over the week we had a few attempts and we got better every time. The activity team presented us with a certificate for our efforts.  Raring to go we headed down to the harbour where our glass bottom boat was waiting for us. We boarded our boat and headed along the rocky coastline Santa Ponsa. The views were breathtaking. Luckily for us we stopped off in a beautiful cove where we were able to jump off the boat and swim in the crystal clear water. It was an amazing experience being so deep in the water with so many fish swimming around us. Drying off a little we then went down to the bottom of the boat where we looked out of the glass bottom a...

Painting & Drawing in France with Jamie & Rachel

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Painting & Drawing in France  It was the first of our art lessons and we couldn’t wait to show off our artistic talent.  With our canvases ready Dominic showed us how to draw the arrangement of flowers in the vases he had prepared. Our creative juices flowed as we focused on our masterpieces. We all agreed they looked fabulous. We even signed them like real artists!  There was a great little market in the local town of Etaples. Everyone was keen to try and converse with the stall holders so in our best French we brought some great gifts, searching for a bargain or two! We couldn’t resist the smells of the freshly baked French bread and other produce for our lunch. Back at the Gites we all enjoyed playing some pool and table football and games whilst putting some cool songs on the jukebox!   We love celebrating a birthday on one of our holidays and this time we had double celebrations!  An amazing morning was spent at the Nausicaa Sea Life...