Empuriabrava Online Blog and News

Castelló town council have announced that a weekly antiques and second-hand goods market will be held in Empuriabrava at Parc Trabuc. The market will start this Saturday.

For the 19th year running there will be a second hand boat fair in Empuriabrava. Small boats, large boats, dinghies, canoes and jet skis will be just some of the nautical craft on display and on sale.

The fair starts on March 31st and runs until April 8th and will be held in the marina area. The fair is open between 10:00 until 19:00 and entry is free.

Due to open in the academic year 2008/2009 a third CEIP (Primary School) is planned for the town of Castelló.

The school is necessary because pupil numbers entering the education system at kindergarten level is set to rise in the next academic year.

Watch out for very windy weather as another Tramontana heads for the Bay of Roses. It is due to start Wednesday afternoon and is predicted to last until at least Sunday. Here’s the forecast wind speeds:

More detailed wind speeds will be put up for Friday-Sunday when they become available.

Update: Wednesday 7th March 2007
The table has been updated with new information. The severity of the gusts has been downgraded slightly for Thursday morning and Friday data has been added.

Update: Thursday 8th March 2007
Saturday’s data has been added and other date upgraded

Channel4’s Relocation, Relocation property programme featured Empuriabrava on last night’s episode.

The Empuriabrava part of the programme was recorded last year. I know because I live next door to one of the properties featured and watched them filming. The amazing part was that they spent most of the day at one property that was only featured for a minute or so. I wondered if all of the crew stayed at the Salins or just Kirstie, Chris and Karen?

As I said, the programme was recorded last year so take what Kirstie said about there being “73 estate agents in Empuriabrava” with a pinch of salt; there’s probably more like 120 now!!

To Chris and Karen who bought a property in Empuriabrava: Enjoy your time here and remember - don’t confuse a pig with a parachute!

UEFA have accepted an application from the Andorran FA to change the Andorra v England qualifier from Andorra (ground capacity 1800) to Espanyol’s Olympic Stadium in Barcelona.

This obviously means that more tickets will be available for the game and alleviate any problems such as the security hassle experience when England last played in Liechtenstein.

I’ve never lived so close to an England fixture!

Get ready for a spell of cold weather that is due to arrive over the next few days with temperatures expected to hit freezing by the end of the week.

Health agencies in the region have been put on alert to deal with flu and other cold weather emergencies. Northern Spain is expected to suffer from poor weather conditions and snow.

Sources: barcelonareporter.com and weatheronline.co.uk

The town council have announced that four pétanque pitches are being built on the beach at Empuriabrava near the mouth of the Muga.

Pétanque is a form of boules and is very popular here in Empuriabrava. You will often see players playing in Parc Trabuc where there are pitches but you will also see people playing on any piece of rough ground.

Have a look at this Wikipedia article for more information about pétanque. Does anyone else think that the picture shown could be in Empuriabrava? Except of course our beaches are more golden!

The British Society of Catalunya is having an Internet training session today run by yours truly.

As part of the training session we will be looking at blogs and I’m writing this so that the group can see how to add comments.

Hello to everyone on the course and I hope you are having fun!

This Empuriabrava Online website is now Number 1 in the Google.co.uk results for the search term “empuriabrava.” This has been my long term aim since I started this website and so I’m very pleased.

Why the title “One in a Million?” According to Google, there are 1,080,000 results for “empuriabrava.”