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FROM 28th MARCH TO 2nd APRIL 2022 – 5 nights/6 days PRICE:  €431 per person in double room – €536 single room Price includes: Luxury bus Hotel 3* in Caceres – Full board with wine included Official Guide in English in Caceres, Trujillo,  Coria and Merida Ticket to Roman amphitheatre and theatre Ticket to Monestry of Guadalupe Cheese tasting of Valle de Alagon cheeses Email: traveltreasurer@u3acalpe.org to reserve your place Telephone:  666408354 for more details

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Tuesday 9th November 2021 A day trip to Valencia City with a stopover at IKEA on the way. The cost is €10 per person. Pick up from Casa/Repsol at 9am and from the Esmeralda Hotel at 9.15am. Leave Valencia at 5pm Payment due at the October meeting on 21st October or by bank transfer to the Travel Account. If interested email: travel@u3acalpe.org

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TREASURE TRAIL – NOW CLOSED WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED NEXT WEEK At your own leisure, follow the clues and make a note of the answers.  When you have finished put the answers in an envelope together with your name/names, U3A membership number, telephone number and email address.  Entry is free but all donations are gratefully received for Cruz Roja, no matter how large or small they may be!  Deposit the envelope in the U3A Postbox 416 in Total Postal. The deadline for submission is Wednesday 7th April.  Prize is a box of delicious chocolates from SVEN.  If you wish to…

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 8.30 am from the Esmeralda Hotel and NEW PICK UP – 8.40 at Casa/Repsol DAY 1 CALPE – SEVILLA Early morning departure towards Sevilla. Stops en route. Arrival at the hotel in the afternoon. Free time, dinner and accommodation in Hotel Don Paco which is situated in the heart of Sevilla.   The hotel is less than 10 minutes away from everything you will want to see. https://www.hoteldonpaco.com/terraza-rialto/ Day 2 SEVILLA Breakfast and panoramic visit of the city with official guide included. Depart the hotel at 9.30am.  We start the tour by bus passing some of the most emblematic monuments of the…

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DUE TO CANCELLATIONS THERE ARE A FEW PLACES AVAILABLE FOR THIS TRIP  Email: travel@u3acalpe.org Hope you all had a good summer!! Let’s start off October with a day trip to Valencia. Tuesday October 1st for only €10 per person. Depart Repsol at 9.30am and Esmeralda at 9.45am. Depart Valencia at 5pm.

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Tuesday 16th April A few places still available……. Depart 8.15 am from Casa/Repsol and 8.30 am from The Esmeralda Hotel Relax in the huge outdoor spa and then enjoy a 3 course lunch in the restaurant. Price including coach from Calpe – €30 Don’t forget to bring flip flops or crocs to wander around the pool.  Also €1 for the locker. If interested please email: Travel@u3acalpe.org  

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€40 per person Wednesday 27th March Itinerary Leave Calpe 8.35 from Esmeralda Hotel and 8.45 from Calpe Bus Station. Coach to Bodega Francisco Gomez, Villena (with comfort stop). Arrive 11.15am. Talk, tour and tasting at Bodega – our guide is Lola Sanchez Leave Bodega (opportunity to buy wine at reduced cost) around 1.15pm 1,30pm arrive by coach at Hotel La Salvadora Restaurant, Villena for a lunch with drinks. Leave for Calpe at 4.30pm. Arrive in Calpe about 6.15pm. Payment at next meeting on 21st February. Email: travel@u3acalpe.org

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NOW CLOSED Our first trip of 2019 will be a day visiting Valencia City on Thursday 31st January. The cost will be €12 per person. To learn more about this beautiful city, click on the link below: https://www.visitvalencia.com/…/monuments-in-valencia/cated… Pick up from Casa at 8am and Esmeralda at 8.15am

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On a very sunny and memorable Sunday (it was 11th November), a group of U3a Members set off from Calpe to Los Barrios in Spain, close to the Gibraltar barrier.  We were greeted onto the coach by our driver Paco. Just before 11am Tony Stevens, a loyal British Legion Member, quoted the poem below followed by a minute’s silence.  We also had a collection for the Poppy Appeal. We finally arrived at our destination at 6.30pm.  The lovely 4* Hotel Montana Plaza in Los Barrrios.  After a Welcome drink in the bar we proceeded to our…

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Tuesday 11th December 2018 ITINERARY Pick up from Casa/Repsol at 8:45 and Esmeralda Hotel at 9am. Drop off Murcia centre then on to Nueva Condomina shopping mall.  Leave there at 1.30 to go to IKEA. Return:  Pick up from IKEA at 15:30 and on to Murcia for pick up at 16:00. Drop off at Casa/Repsol and then Esmeralda. €10. From Calpe to Murcia or IKEA.  Payment due now.  Please pay into the U3a bank Travel account. email: travel@u3acalpe.org if you would like to go on this trip

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