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Cos Blanc Salou 2012

2012-02-03T08:52:00.001Z

Well its here again, Cos Blanc 2012, the biggest fiesta on the Salou calendar over 20,000 tons of confetti and 30,000 people will be on the streets of Salou tomorrow.
Daytime parade followed by nighttime madness.
Cos Blanc photos here
Cos Blanc videos here

Who Is It?

2012-01-26T15:59:00.000Z

Shake your head whilst looking at the picture... Who do you see?

HORSE ON THE RUN IN SALOU

2012-01-18T05:43:00.002Z

It took nearly 40 police and helpers to bring a runaway horse under control on C/Barcelona, Salou yesterday.

The horse, believed to have escaped from the local kebab shop 'Pita Kebab' or it my have been vila-seca damaged several cars during its little rampage.

PortAventura Roller-Coaster 2012 Construction video diary

2012-01-15T09:59:00.000Z

A video diary from the PortAventura community of the progress on the construction of the new roller coaster.

PortAventura supera los 3,2 millones de visitantes de la temporada anterior

2012-01-10T13:43:00.000Z

PortAventura ha superado esta temporada, que acabó ayer, los 3,2 millones de visitantes que tuvo la pasada temporada, han informado a Efe fuentes de este parque temático de la Costa Dorada.

A falta de datos definitivos, y tras cerrar ayer la temporada 2011, estas fuentes han confirmado que, a pesar de la crisis, la cifra de visitantes ha sido "muy superior" a la del año anterior.

"Se superará la cifra del año anterior bastante considerablemente", han añadido estas fuentes, que han especificado que el perfil del visitante corresponde en una tercera parte a turistas catalanes, en otra tercera parte a visitantes procedentes del resto de España y el resto a visitantes internacionales, en concreto de Francia, Gran Bretaña y, en tercer lugar y con un gran aumento, de Rusia.

Además, y hasta el 30 de marzo, cuando comenzará la temporada del 2012, PortAventura proseguirá con nuevas inversiones y proyectos como la nueva montaña rusa, dedicada al público familiar, que se inaugurará la próxima primavera y supondrá una inversión de 25 millones.

La temática de esta atracción girará alrededor del Himalaya y consistirá en un reto de aventura, con referencias a las leyendas de esta cordillera asiática.

Asimismo, se construirá un aparcamiento para autocaravanas, lo que permitirá a las personas que hacen ruta pasar la noche en PortAventura y comprar una entrada combinada para disfrutar del parque y hacer noche en el aparcamiento.

Igualmente, se pondrá en marcha una escuela de conducción, una atracción donde los niños podrán aprender nociones de seguridad vial y después ponerlas en práctica en un circuito con coches a su medida.

Finalmente, PortAventura procederá a remodelar las 500 habitaciones del hotel PortAventura, que se modernizarán con un criterio de polivalencia apto tanto para el público de vacaciones como para el de negocios

PortAventura visitors up on last season.

2012-01-10T13:41:00.000Z

PortAventura has finished this season, which ended yesterday, with 3.2 million visitors for the season, for the Costa Dorada theme park.

In the absence of definitive data, and after closing the 2011 season yesterday, sources have confirmed that, despite the crisis, the number of visitors has been "very superior" to the previous year.

The visitor count exceeds the previous year considerably with a third of visitors coming from Catalunya, one third from the rest of Spain and the other third made up from British, French and Dutch with the largest increase being from Russia

Furthermore, until 30 March when the 2012 season begins, PortAventura continue with new investments and projects like the new roller coaster, dedicated to the family audience, with the highest drop in the world a whopping 300ft which will open next spring and will involve an investment of 25 million.

The subject of this ride is based on the Himalayas and will consist of a challenging adventure, with references to the legends of this mountain range in Asia.

Also being built is a camper parking area, which will allow people to spend the night at PortAventura and buy a combined ticket to enjoy the park and spend the night in the parking area.

Also being developed is a driving school, an attraction where children can learn road safety concepts and then implement them on their own circuit car.

Finally, PortAventura continued to remodel the 500-room Hotel PortAventura, which will be revamped with a versatile approach suitable for both the public holiday or for business.

NEW YEAR FIREWORKS ACROSS THE WORLD 2012

2012-01-01T12:44:00.000Z

Some brilliant firework displays from across the word, maybe i'm a little bit biased but I think London just about edged it. What do you think?

LONDON FIREWORKS 2012

SYDNEY FIREWORKS 2012

TAIPEI FIREWORKS 2012

DUBAI FIREWORKS 2012

MOSCOW FIREWORKS 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM GOOGLE AND SALOU

2011-12-31T17:50:00.000Z

I will leave you all with this for the end of the year, check out Google at midnight if anyone is sober enough

HAPPY NEW YEAR SEE YOU ALL IN 2012

The biggest moments of 2011 -

2011-12-31T11:13:00.001Z

Its hard to believe all this only happened this past year

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2011-12-28T13:36:00.000Z

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Beautiful day in Salou

2011-12-27T08:56:00.000Z

Well Christmas is over with for another year, spent yesterday on the beach relaxing with my daughter and our dog.
Salou is now getting ready for the new year celebrations, swiftly followed by the arrival of the three kings on 5th January.
The procession consists of the three Kings, Baltasar (legend has it, that he brings the gifts), Gaspar, Melchor and their attendants. Each king has his own float, which is decorated in the most luxurious of fashions. They usually have a throne and a huge wild animal; I have seen life-size model tigers and elephants. The Kings are dressed as if the have just come from the orient with turbans, gold trousers, sparkly waistcoats, blackened faces and full length beards. The floats are absolutely spectacular, big, bold and oozing the Orient. No money or effort is spared in the decoration. The part of the procession that everyone loves the most is that each float is loaded down with Caramelos, sweets.
The kings and their attendants throw these sweets in large handfuls into the eagerly awaiting crowd. There is a near riot; it is every man for himself. Don’t be polite, and expect to be rugby tackled by 5 foot nothing old ladies. The crowd goes wild grabbing handfuls of sweets and putting them into carrier bags and those who are really greedy bring upturned umbrellas. It is quite an energetic pursuit and it's not for the faint hearted. On our first procession we managed to get about 3 sweets and two of those were from a sympathetic policeman. Last year, however, we were more prepared and my daughter discovered the joys of grappling about in the gutter with the other little ones. The amazing thing is she is not really keen on the sweets but it is all such fun and she doesn’t even mind being hit on the head a few times by the sugar missiles.

Ну Рождество закончилась со еще на один год, провел вчера на пляже расслабляющий с моей дочерью и нашей собаки.

Салоу в настоящее время готовится к празднованию Нового года, стремительно сопровождалась приходом трех царей, 5 января.

Процессия состоит из трех королей, Бальтазар (легенда гласит, что он приносит подарки), Гаспар, Мельчор и их обслуживающего персонала. Каждый царь есть свой поплавок, который оформлен в самых роскошных мод. У них обычно есть престол и огромный дикий зверь, я видел в натуральную величину модели тигров и слонов.Короли одеты как будто только что вернулся с Востока в тюрбанах, золотые брюки, блестящие жилеты, почерневшие лица и бороды длиной.Плавает абсолютно захватывающий, большие, смелые и сочилась Востока. Нет денег, ни усилий уделяется в отделке.Часть процессии, что каждый человек любит больше всего, что каждый поплавок нагруженные Caramelos, сладости.

Царей и сопровождающие их лица бросить эти сладости в больших горсти в нетерпением ждут толпы. Существует около беспорядки, это каждый сам за себя. Не будьте вежливы, и рассчитывать на регби решаться 5 футов ничего старушки.Толпа идет дикий захват горсти конфет и положить их в сумки и тех, кто действительно жадные принести перевернутые зонтики. Вполне энергичные преследования и это не для слабонервных. На нашей первой процессии нам удалось получить около 3 конфеты и два из них были из симпатической полицейского. Однако в прошлом году, мы были более подготовлены, и моя дочь обнаружила радости борется о в канаве вместе с другими малышами.Удивительно то, что она на самом деле не заинтересованы в сладости, но это все так весело, и она даже не против того, ударили по голове несколько раз на сахар ракет.

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2011-07-20T16:21:00.002+01:00

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Sant Joan Salou 2011

2011-06-20T22:19:00.000+01:00

Sant Joan in Spain marks the start of the summer. This is is the midsummer solstice celebration, which is the day that has the longest period of daylight in the year (not to be confused with the "Equinox" days, which are the days when the day and night are of equal length. The Equinoxes occurs twice a year usually in March and September.) The Nit de Sant Joan celebrations in Spain and Salou are on the evening of the 23rd June. The next day is 24th June which is Saint John's day and a public holiday in Catalonia and Spain. The Sant Joan festivals and fiestas are from sunset on 23/6 to sunrise on 24/6 on the eve of Saint John's day. The Sant Joan festival is often called "La Nit de Sant Joan" - the night of Saint John. The fiestas are also called "verbenas" or "revetllas," which means open-air fiestas or celebrations.

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2011-06-17T22:18:00.002+01:00

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2011-06-15T11:05:00.001+01:00

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Pere Granados is re-elected as Mayor of Salou

2011-05-23T07:38:00.001+01:00

The results of the local election in Salou are in and current Mayor Pere Granados has been voted back in for another term in office. Only 7,488 people (53.16%) turned out to vote with the CiU recieving 1,938 votes.

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Signs of something happening

2011-05-18T06:47:00.000+01:00

7:45am and the first piece of plant machinery has arrived on site, looks like it really is going to happen

Demolition Day for Salou Bowling

2011-05-18T06:02:00.000+01:00

Well today 18th May 2011 sees the start of the demolition of the old bowling alley in Salou. A long awaited for day for a lot of residents who have had to put up with the eyesore for a long long time.
No sign of anything happening yet but watch this space for daily progress updates and maybe a few photos.

Salou Weather

2011-05-17T07:39:00.000+01:00

Well it's starting to cloud over a bit now here in Salou, seems that the weather website got it wrong for today.
Not to worry though, there is plenty to do here in Salou come rain or shine.
Go here for a long range Salou Weather forecast.

Salou Bowling Building Demolition

2011-05-14T07:58:00.000+01:00

Condemned .... Yehaaaa 18th May 2011

Finally!!!!!!!! The old derelict bowling centre in Salou is due to be demolished starting on 18th may. About time too, it's one of the biggest eyesores in Salou.

New Salou Webcams site

2011-05-10T09:56:00.001+01:00

Just a note to mention the new Salou Webcams website, with live 24hr webcam views of Salou and surrounding areas

SALOU FUN RUN

2011-05-06T09:15:00.004+01:00

SALOU 7th FAMILY FUN RUN
Location: Salou, Jaime i statue in front of McDonalds
Time: 11:30 & 14:30
Map: Click HERE

4 Km and 10 Km runs, start time 10.00am, entry on line - www.freesiagroup.com for full information. Under 18's or folks without internet access can join at the Public Swimming Poo, Runners World in Tarragona or Armobal Sports in Reus l or on the morning of the run until 09.15. All proceeds to cancer charities in Spain.
Enlist now, join us on the day or volunteer to help - sponsor forms available on web-site or contact us at carrerapopular@freesiagroup.com

More info on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=209496035740935

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2011-04-29T14:37:00.003+01:00

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2011-04-13T21:38:00.003+01:00

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Saloufest

2011-04-11T07:14:00.002+01:00

Well it's arrived again, Saloufest is in town and up to now no trouble, hundreds of students on the beach, 1 local policeman stood watching, so before the Daily Mail gets its twopence worth in 'NOTHING TO WRITE ABOUT'.