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Good to see you back Sandra so glad you had a lovely time, great pictures ....

Looks like you had a great time away Sanbaz! Fantastic that you were able to enjoy your food with no bad repercussions, that's all part of the joy of going away... No cooking! Your garden is looking as if it survived really well while you were away, I'm sure it was the first thing you checked on when you arrived back! Lol! ;0) Lovely to have you home!

Hi Sandra, glad you had a good holiday in Spain. Isn't it great not to have to think of cooking? Like you I love swimming in the sea. Us Scots are tough when it comes to sea swimming!!!!! It is amazing how much the garden changes when you are away for any time.

glad you had such a lovely rest, good to know it is possible to unwind, relax and feel better; i agree with you about the sangria. i love that sand sculpture.

anyone any ideas of how to cope with my holiday next week ~ a scottish island [which i love] but the forecast is rain showers, light rain and heavy rain!!

Glad you had a good rest San .also Plenty to eat without having to get it ready yourself ,Bliss , and to be able to enjoy a drink and not have any tummy probs ,
I loved the first pic. of the island it looks as though it's sinking into the sea at one end :o) Your garden it looking great ! it's nice to se you back :o))

Pleased you had a good time San, obviously done you a power of good, I`m really curious about the reason for the locks, have to ask Jeeves, lol.
Very good photographs, agree with Sticki,the sand sculpture is grand......

Nice to see that you enjoyed your week and were able to unwind.

Pleased you enjoyed your holiday, the weather here as been not very nice at all, know we needed rain but when it started it did'nt know when to stop, had a big thunderstorm the other day, thanks for showing us the photos.

Glad you had a good time San it looks a lovely place to go :o)))

Im happy you had a good time San and got yourself destressed :) Some lovely pics, love the palm tree walkway, i wonder what the story behind the locks is! Your garden looks great, doesen't the acer really " lift " your pond area, Gorgeous..

glad you had a nice holiday and the garden looks really nice

Glad you enjoyed it San. The garden is looking really lovely...hasn't it come on since last year? Mine too...great to see things maturing! :)))

thankyou all for your lovely comments, the garden was the first thing i checked when home lol
my neighbour kept an eye on things and fed my fish and watered the garden if needed.
it was lovely to eat and drink without a bad tummy when away yes and i ate most things i like to which was great but back to being careful now.
i must try and find out about the locks on the stone steps to i would love to know and if we go again im going to visit the island to, its a steep walk apparently and does look like its sinking with the slope.
my acer is beautifull this year and i love the dark colour against all the green and my new willow is doing well to.
linda i wouldnt fancy swimming in the sea in scotland at the moment brrrr lol but i do enjoy the sea much nicer than a pool.
nice to be back amongst GOYer friends and gardens :o))
the sand sculptures were amazing and there was one of the simpsons all sat on a sofa but i didnt have my camera that time :o(

Glad you had a lovely holiday Sandra, but its nice to see you back. Thankyou for sharing the photo's it looks lovely there....

Glad you had a great holiday,San..and a good hotel too.It makes the holiday,I think...and the warm sunshine..just perfect.:o)

thanx maureen and sandra, miss the sun thats for sure, cloudy and cold here today and maybe rain at weekend.

Welcome home, pleased you had a lovely time, always good to get away does one the power of good
The garden looks well and had not suffered, so back to it!!

San, I am the same, if I can't find out what is going on ...like with the locks, I find it quite annoying! There was a lovely building on top of the peninsula where we were and I couldn't find out anywhere what it was for...whether it was private or a govt. building or what it was.....very frustrating! I would love to know what those padlocks are about!

hello sanbaz thanks for sharing the blog..its great to get away and looks like you enjoyed the relaxing..

on the padlocks I can offer some info..it started in Italy and on the locks are the names of lovers..the idea is that they are 'Locked by Love' the idea is that their love is everlasting and unbreakable..it came from a book called Tengo ganas de ti (I want you) where the main protagonists locked a padlock on a lampost. After that people in Italy starting putting them on a bridge in Rome..it spread across Europe..ive seen some in Croatia..

Id expect to see Sandra and Baz on one of them if Im ever in Benidorm then??

Looks like you had a good holiday, and the garden is looking good to. Nice to have you back :o)

It is great that you've had a lovely break away and been able to indulge yourself with food, drink and sea :) You were both so ready for that stress-free holiday and it seems you chose a great hotel/location.

Everything is springing up in your garden and it seems to have fared well in your absence....hope the weekend is ok weatherwise so you can get your garden jobs up to date :)

So...welcome home....and thanks to Skipscanda for the background to the locks...it seems quite a plausible explanation and rather a cute idea.

Welcome home Sandra, pleased you enjoyed your hols its good to relax and get away for awhile, but I bet it was nice to see your garden again its looking great ;0)

i found out the padlock mistery, apparently couples in love lock a padlock on the chain then throw the key into the sea, from then on they will never part, so there you go, mistery solved.
oops just seen skipscanda`s comment thankyou, wish we had done one now lol then he couldnt get away from me haha :o)
thanx sue ;o)
thankyou jacquie and carole, yes i looked the lock thing up then noticed skip had commented on it which is great,
we will defernatly visit again one year,
its great to see my garden and looking forward to getting some gardening done at weekend if the weather ok :o))

gla dyou had a nice holiday sandra....

Glad you had a good holiday, Sandra - jut what you needed after being so unwell. The weather here has been a bit colder than it was, but where I live we are still waiting for a decent bit of rain - it seems to miss our area every time.

Don't attack your garden too strongly as you might make yourself ill again - take care and Happy Gardening.

Enjoyed reading about your holiday very much and those pictures were so interesting, especially the one with the padlocks, never seen that before, what an unusual idea. Your garden doesn't look as though you've been away, and the Acer looks especially good. Is great to go away and see other countries, but oh! so nice! to come home again.

thanx Holly :o))
cheers Marie hope you get some rain for your garden soon, we have had some while i was away and showers today, im going at a slower pace since back, decided im not rushing about at work or at home anymore, not worth it, things can wait :o)
thanx Titchy glad you enjoy it, my garden isnt to bad not alot of weeds as there are far to many plants for weeds to get a look in lol.
i love going away but always great to see home again i agree ;o)

so pleased to see you had a lovely holiday San, love your photos

Late to your Benidorm blog, San, looks as though you both had a really relaxing time, which is the whole point of a holiday, isn't it? I'm pleased you were able to eat & drink without any tummy problems, and you're like me with the Sangria. I don't drink much at all these days, yet will happily drink a jug of it if I'm abroad! The garden is looking great, really filling up now. Hope the weather warms up for you soon. : o )

thanx val we had a super time and feel refreshed and ready to go lol :o))
thanx shirley im having a nice sangria tonight lol brought a bottle home with me, will have one for you to haha
its windy here and i got all my plants today for my baskets, so in my grow house till it cheers up a bit, also got two tomatoe plants to try again this year but bet it will be green chutney again lol :o))

Cheers San! It's turned chilly tonight, still no rain down here so I had to water the pots this evening. Somebody gave Mum a 'Tumbling Tom' variety which she's put in a tall pot, keeping it in the greenhouse for a while though. Good luck with your Toms this year! : o )

thanx shirley, i have a bigger variety this year called alicante lol, funny as iv just been there haha

That's a lovely variety, San. You'll have holiday memories when you're eating them later on!

Hi San, sorry I missed your blog - I havent been on GOW much lately for various reasons (including the Malvern Show)
Benidorm looks lovely - more parks than I had imagined.
Glad you had a good time and are now refreshed and ready to get down to some serious gardening!
Lets hope you have sunshine and showers for the next few days!

thanx shirley i will wont i :o))
thanx Rachelsmum, always nice to get back to our own gardens isnt it, seems like all cloud and showers here at the moment at least till wed they say, but heyho cant change it :o)

Hi San, glad you had a good holiday and now feel refreshed, I am back now also and how the garden looks overgrown after ten days!! Plenty of work to do now! I am also facinated about 'the locks', you need to go back San and soon cos we need to know about them! Lol.

thanx Grandmage the locks are uncovered and its lovers locks, couple put them there and throw away the key which means they will be together forever ;o)
hope you enjoyed your hols to, soon goes doesnt it and soon feeling tired again, never stopped since i got back, cleaning , shopping, running after no 1 son grrr, never mind, baz says we are going away again later :o))

Nice story about the locks, aaahh, those were the days. There is always something to do San, isn't there? I am happy these days to just get the washing on and the rest will follow when I'm ready, Lol, at least I only have my hub. at home now, so life is a bit easier! Dont over do it!

thanx Grandmage, only me and baz apart from uni hols for joe but still seems to be so much to do, baz works 7 days most weeks so no time to help out in the house but does try to help cutting grass and heavy jobs in garden, but with work and my art to i need more days lol, i said when we came back im going to go a bit slower but somehow it doesnt happen haha, my hip is bad to which dont help, heyho lovely getting older lol, take care x

San I have a hip and a knee!! Blasted nuisance, I agree dont lets get old!! x

feel for you, agreed no getting old lol x

When I was last on GoY you were just about to leave for your holiday, Sanbaz, and now it is all over. So pleased you had a lovely relaxing time. Very interesting about the locks - I watched Eurovision song contest last night and saw a similar picture of locks there and we wondered why :)

Very nice pictures, the one of the island is incredible, it looks like something prehistoric...Had to smile when I saw pictures of Benidorm, in a textbook we used to teach intermediate Spanish there was an article the students had to read on Benidorm...not having ever heard of it before I always wondered what it was really like, lol. Nice to see the pictures, now I know what the article was talking about!

Welcome home lol sorry it's late. You had a nice time and I'm glad you were able to feel relaxed for a while. Those cacti were big weren't they :O I would love to have some like that in my collection :)

thanx Gee and fancy seeing similar locks after i had done this, its popular then, all couples hoping for life long love haha, it soon comes and goes Gee, we are going to go later to, maybe somewhere else but cant wait till next year :o)
cheers raquel glad it gave you insight into something you have read about, its another world at night though, we stayed away from the disco area, unbeivable isnt a strong enough word really lol :o)
thanx hywel i only take the cacti for you, hope you know that haha, should have dug one up for you haaha ;o))

I was a cactus in a previous life :o)

lol hywel i wont answered that one or i will be flagged big time haha :o)

hahaha :D !

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What are you two like! ... : o ))))))

lol shirley haha :o))

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San....are you trying to get out of a prickly situation? lol

lol jacquie haha its shirlys mind, im innocent here arent we hywel ;o))

butter wouldn't melt Sandra :)))

thats right hywel :o))) haha

I'm here at last Sandra! sorry it's late, but can't always find the time. I love your pics and now you've solved the lock mystery, can you solve this one for me? what is on the lovely pic which you put on twice? :-)

thanx BA glad you like the pics, the double take is a viewing area with a lovely structure with seats, its splits the new beach from the old town area, it a great view when up there, the steps with the locks takes you up there and we sat outside a lovely resturant and drank a jug of sangria and watched the world go by ;o)

Bliss.....I must admit I got a taste for sangria in Spain too. Problem is, when i try to make it, it doesn't taste as good:-)

im not sure whats in it BA, i got a litre and half bottle to bring home which is lovely and has screw top so a glass each evening with my dinner, just add the fruit, not sure you can buy it over here, but on the look out, was told from someone if you like sangria you will like pimms, so will try that next haha

Just catching up after being away myself. Fab photos San...that sandcastle is just incredible !! :o)

thanx judy hope your hols went well to, i love the sandcastles, so talented ;o)

Hi Sandra,sorry ..late catching up on your blog,lovely pics takes me back to when i was there..pleased you enjoyed your food with nothing repeated..ours in Majorca was repeated all week except for the meats.. of which there was lots of choice.. only trouble is i dont eat it.glad you had the chance to relax as thats what our hols are for.Your garden is looking smashing now with lots going on .we have just booked for Costa Del Sol in Oct so cant wait for that now lol..:o)