Author: Alan Chuter

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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Writing Group meets once a month, except July and August, usually, meetings are held in a local café, but occasionally we get together at a member’s home. We are a friendly collection of members who enjoy writing, whatever form that may take. It isn’t a group designed to teach creative writing skills – we wouldn’t presume to do that – nor are we editors or proof-readers. We are mostly enthusiastic amateurs, although we do have an ex-English teacher to advise on the technicalities of English grammar and punctuation, and a just-published author to point out all the pitfalls! We try…

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Book Group meets on the second Tuesday of every month, except July and August, at 3.00 pm. The venue varies, sometimes at local cafe or at a member’s home. The format for the meeting is straightforward. The book of the month is introduced by the member whose book choice it is, and then we spend an hour or so discussing it. Although we consider the book seriously, looking at the themes it throws up, the characters, the writing style of the author and so on, we are not an academic-style study group. Rather, we are a group of keen and…

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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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U3A Calpe has two Facebook pages a general one called U3A Calpe and another for travel called U3A Travel Calpe. These pages have a lot of information, the U3A Calpe page has lots of information about Calpe, the cinema when it is in English, the new car parks, lots and lots that it would not be appropriate to put onto this website.

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