Erm.....think the 'rain from the souf' is heading 'oop thataway'.... ....I'm a lovely rust colour at the moment!

Looking forward to the video already Sanji - have a safe trip home - I think you've seen the last of the sunshine for a while

Well Benidorm had a big impact on me, I started with the notorious Benidorm cough on Friday night, and coughed, shivered and sputtered all the way home to Doncaster on Saturday.
I went to bed early because I just couldn't get warm and the rest is a blur of sleeping, taking medications, shivering, swetting and sleeping, until today where I've managed to stay awake and out of bed. but still not dressed.
I will write a report on the hotel and the resort when I'm feeling better, probably next week, but today I've felt like playing around with the video footage in dribs and drabs.

lincolnsue wrote:

We went to Beni in March and went to look at the Tiempo building, it stands out very prominently now.
Sue

Side view from Poniente beach
http://i50.tinypic.com/a1ss5g.jpg

http://www.holidaytruths.tv/media/3062/Residencial_In_Tempo/

Sanji x

Sorry to hear you've been unwell since returning from Benidorm Sanji I hope you'll be better soon. Looking forward to seeing your pictures after you've recovered.

Thanks Jean

Wishing you better Sanji. Its so awful when you get this kind of thing, but somehow seems even worse when you pick it up on holiday.

Doe

Hi sanji....get better soon...there are too many bugs everywhere these days...Im scared to pole my nose out of the front door at the moment...so take care sangi to look after you properly ...plenty of extra vit c...and a course of echenacia wouldnt go amiss soon as your over this one....easier to pick up other bugs after a bad one like youve got... as your whole system will be down in its boots for a while.......talking from experience...but Im finaly on the up again.... tweetie

Hope you feel better soon Sanji, looking forward to your hotel report and pics.

Sanji keep warm and get lots of hot drinks into you, maybe a few whiskeys if you can take it.
Both me and Shirley, are coughfing, and sneezing, and we are going on the 15th. Sods law as the saying goes, we are hoping the sun will help us to get rid of it, there are loads of people got this virus in the north east..
Any way hope you get better soon... John....

Thanks peeps for your concerns I'm feeling a lot better today, but still zapped of energy, at least I've managed to get dressed today.
I have no idea where I picked this bug up from and I can't even recall anyone sneezing anywhere near me. Most of the time we were by ourselves walking and (without sounding paranoid) I'm so careful of touching objects and using the antibacterial hand gel I carry around before I put anything near my mouth, I even take the hand gel through security in a plastic bag so that I can use it on the plane before eating anything...(that does sound paranoid)

But it's been a little beggar and it's taking some 'shaking off' or I'm just getting older and it seems to hit you harder. I suppose one consolation is that I started with it on the eve before we returned home, I really wouldn't have liked to be in Benidorm or anywhere other that at home in my own bed this last week.

This time last week I felt so fit and healthy walking on the promenade in Albir with some colour in my face, and then this week I'm back to being pale and looking like summat the dog has dragged in from off the street.
But it looks like I'm going to survive, so no need to visit the florists just yet.

Sanji

Sanji wrote:

But it looks like I'm going to survive, so no need to visit the florists just yet

Yes you're definitely better

Sorry to hear you have been unwell since your holiday Sanji (I have only just read the post)but glad to hear you are recovering.
I have viewed your video and seen the picture of el Tiempo from the beach. We have taken lots from various angles as I have been really interested in following the progress.
I have also been back in touch with Snowey thanks to seeing his name in your thread. We once met up in Majorca,when we stayed in the same hotel.

Sue

I have also been back in touch with Snowey thanks to seeing his name in your thread. We once met up in Majorca,when we stayed in the same hotel.

That's lovely news, I've met some very nice people through HT...and IMO THAT is what makes HT different.
Yes, I've been following its progress and other Torres on the skyscraper site, I used to contribute to the skyscraper site more often when we visited Benidorm more often, but there's not much chance of a skyscraper being built in Andalucía where we usually visit now.

I love skyscrapers and they say beauty is in the eyes of the beholder or summat like that, and it's how an individual looks at something and their own mind interprets what they see.
When I look at Benidorm's skyline from the Cross, IMO it's just as impressive as Hong Kong's, Sydney's or New York's, and some architects who went on to become famous, they 'cut their teeth' designing skyscrapers in Benidorm during the high-rise boom years!...Beni has problems financially and at ground level, but so does other places.
Most people look at Benidorm and think it's a miss mash of concrete, but in fact it still has the same urban plan in place as it had when the first skyscraper was conceived, which ensures that every Skyscraper will have some 'green area' around it, otherwise it would be packed in together, 'wall to wall'.

Benidorm is officially classed as being eco-friendly and in 50/60 years, although it has obviously expanded, it hasn't expanded and encroached too far into the surrounding countryside, in comparison to the sprawling concrete urbanisations built in other parts of Spain, where they were losing land at a rate of three football pitches a day to construction without any infrastructure in place such as a water supply...in a country where in places, water is like liquid gold.

It's exactly 2 years since I was last in Benidorm and I noticed how some of the hotels have had or are having facelifts!.the Ocas, the Brisa, the Sol Costablanca, the now Riveria and the Rosaire (Flash)
Just wish they'd sort the Selomar building out, how long has that been closed, about 6 years? And still sites are advertising it!.. and the Los Dalmatas is now about 6 years overdue for the promised refurbishment/gutting out.

Sanji x

Hopefully you're feeling better now Sanji Looking forward to many more videos!

Great to hear your feeling better Sanji and getting back to your normal self xx

Hope you soon feel better, you can't keep a good un down
Margaret(madmum)

Just some footage I took of the refurbished hotels Sol CostaBlanca and the Brisa.
You will see that the Sol Costablanca is now adults only and when looking at the hotel with your back to the sea (as I was) although I forgot to film it, I noticed that the left hand side of the hotel with the rooms facing the tall brown bricked building , that side externally has not been refurbished and has the old balconies and brickwork.

http://www.holidaytruths.tv/media/3063/Hotels_Sol_Costablanca__Brisa/

Sanji

Thanks for that Sanji Wonder why they left one side

You remember all that noise with the piledriver and heavy machinery hammering, opposite the Hotel Ocas a few years ago for that fabulous 40 floor Torre, that was having the foundations dug out and was going to have the first 12 floors as a 4* hotel & casino, with the rest of the floors as luxury residential apartments and underground parking?



Well, the builder 'Convalesa' seems to have gone broke, and I suppose there is some consolation that if they were going to go bust, they did so at this stage and not half way through, leaving a half built skeleton and a monstrous eye-sore, and from what I'm reading on the Skyscraper site, the project is now considered to be dead.
It certainly looks that way with the sales office and billboards removed and what was going to be an underground carpark for the hotel, is now being put to use as a public pay carpark with a new bus stop outside the site.

But, the land is still there and when Spain returns to happier times, who knows? The Torre Mediterraneo may be renamed the Torre Lazarus.

http://www.holidaytruths.tv/media/3064/Torre_Mediterraneo_Carpark/

Sanji x