Erasmus Trip – May 5th – 9th 2025
Today was the start of our Erasmus trip to Tarragona Spain. We started the day with a very early rise at 1:00 AM. We said our goodbyes to parents in Ballymitty NS and off we went to Dublin airport. We had a very quick breakfast and a very fast boarding before we took off on our flight with Ryanair to Barcelona. We arrived in Barcelona at 9:30 AM and then took the bus to La Pineda to the hotel. There was great excitement for the kids as they checked into their rooms. We then made our way to a little Italian restaurant called La Tagliatelle for some pizzas and pasta. After that the sun was ready to greet us. We had a quick ice cream and we made our way back to the rooms to get ready for the pool. There is a fabulous pool here with lots of different sized pools and some slides. There is also a games area with table tennis and pool. The children spent a couple of hours in the pool before some Irish weather came in over us and it started to rain and blow a gale. From there we headed back to the rooms and had a chill out time. We then went down for dinner. The kids enjoyed a wide choice of food for dinner. They had everything from seafood to fish to pizza and found the ice cream self serve machine too!
We sang a Happy Birthday to Josh who turned 13 today! He had a ball today! On the Ryanair flight they treated to us a quick look into meet the pilot in the cockpit!!
The children went off and played games and did some dancing after dinner. We have discovered that Tommy is a wonderful dancer! He kept us entertained at the pool and on the dancefloor! To finish the day we sat around and named our favourite things today! The children were exhausted so an early bed time today!
The children had an early night because of the early start! We look forward to visiting the school tomorrow and meeting our new Spanish friends and seeing their school! Tune in again tomorrow!
Here’s a video of the fun we had today: