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I have stayed in V-i-l-G several times (and going back there in May) - the first time at a private apartment near the Atenea Park. Without having stayed there, it looks big and well kept, if a little impersonal.

The weather in April will be variable - around 18 degrees but Vilanova is quite sheltered for that part of the coast. Go to the INM website, click on the area of the home page with '7' on it, select 'Barcelona', then Vilanova for the 7-day local weather.

The Atenea Park is on the South side of town, very near to the beach. The walk into town along the boulevard is very pleasant (about 15 minutes), and you'll start to see the fish restaurants as you get to the bottom of the Rambla de la Pau (marked by a weird statue head - there's a tourist info office just before that on the beach side of the road). Head uphill into town and there's a Mexican restaurant in a small red building on your left that our friends go to called L'oquancuit (or something like that), otherwise keep heading uphill until the traffic lights, cross over into the main Rambla where most of the restaurants and shops are. The road that runs parallel uphill on your right (Carrer de Sant Sebastia) also has some very good restaurants (especially Il Forno for pizza, salads and steak), ditto Carrer de Sant Antoni further back.

On the main Rambla, you will find a few places serving chicken, chips and burgers. The bf recommends the burger and chips at the Beverly Hills(? - something like that) on the Rambla Principal.

You will need to speak Castillian and/or Catalan. The only person who speaks English is the lady in the newsagents that sells foreign papers and magazines at the bottom of the Rambla de la Pau. The bakery nearby has the best ice creams on the planet. The health food shop over the road caters for veggies like me. There is a stationers near the Post Office that sells postcards, which seemed to be the only place that did.

There was a massive new apartment complex at the bottom on the Rambla de la Pau that was just being built last time I went there (2005), so it might have contributed a few new eateries.

The nearest supermarket is a Mercadona on Carrer de Josep Coroleu. Go out of the Atenea and head away from the beach. Turn right on to Carrer de Alexandre de Cabanyes, to the left of a small green (Carrer de Roger de Flor), under the underpass, and it's forward and to the right, over the pedestrain crossing, just by the petrol station on the big roundabout.

I like Vilanova a lot, but it's a funny place - a Barcelona commuter town with fab beaches.