Barcelona Mum

Weight Watchers

The following Weight Watchers meetings are in Spanish but are run by English speaker Amanda Blackburn, who can help those who need it:-
 
Mondays  8pm
Grup de Dones de Torredembarra,
C/ Reus, 5-7,
Torredembarra. (near the CAP)
 
Tuesdays 7.30pm and Wednesdays 10.30am.
Associacion de Vecinos del Miracle,
Vía Augusta 43, Bajos,
Tarragona.
 
Please contact Amanda on 699387883 for more information. She is always there 20 minutes before the meetings start. 

www.weightwatchers.es
 

Golf

The Costa Dorada Golf Club consists of an 18 hole, par 72 course for beginners and experienced golfers. There is a creche service and children´s park for young children and a television room  with board games, table football and table tennis for older children as well as 2 swimming pools. You can either play the course, take lessons or practice on the putting green or driving range. Players can hire golf clubs, buggies and both manual and electric carts. There is a beautiful club house which offers an 11 Euro daily lunchtime menu
Ctra.El Catllar km 2,7 El Catllar, 43080 Tarragona 977653361

Spa - Hotel Termes Montbrio

This hotel spa, awarded the price for the leading Spa and Hotel in 2003, is a real treat. The Thermal Centre boasts a mud and seaweed jacuzzi, turkish baths, saunas and a beauty salon with a host of hydro and electrotherapy treatments. They offer chocolate therapy and hydromassage with milk and vanilla essences as well as facial and body peeling with oats. Please note entry is limited to over 16s.
Tarragona 902930400 reservas@rocblanchotels.com www.rocblanchotels.com
Camí de la Serra, 52. E-43470 La Selva del Camp (Tarragona)

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Spa - Mas Passamaner

Mas Passamaner spa, in La Selva del Camp, is set in a exclusive five star hotel renown for its design (each of the rooms is designed and named after a famous Catalan modernist architect) and cuisine. You can enjoy a range of beauty treatments and relaxing therapies such as massages, face treatments, electrotherapy, spas and hidrotherapy. For the more daring they offer chocolate, coffee, wine and cereal body wraps You can really escape from the children as entry to the spa is limited to over 16s.
Camí de la Serra, 52. E-43470 La Selva del Camp (Tarragona) 977766333 hotel@maspassamaner.com www.maspassamaner.com
Camí de la Serra, 52. E-43470 La Selva del Camp (Tarragona)

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A Taste of Home - English Supermarket

A Taste of Home - English Supermarket is reasonably large with a very good selection of English food (stock of over 2000 items) for those who miss homecooking. They also cater for Americans, Germans and Dutch and deliver on a very regular basis within Catalunya.
Calle Benidorm 15, 43860 L'Ametlla de Mar, Tarragona 977456158  inge-barker@hotmail.com www.atasteofhome.eu.com

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Learn Spanish/Catalan

International House
Founded in 1980, the International House Tarragona language school is located in the heart of Tarragona. They offer language classes for young learners, teenagers, adults and companies. All the teachers at International House are native speakers of the language they teach.
Rambla Nova 99, 1º, 43001 Tarragona 97723 004 ihtarragona@tar.ihes.com  www.ihes.com/tar

"At the moment we have 2 groups for adults: Beginners every Tuesday and Thursday 10-11 am; Intermediate every Tuesday 10-11.30 am. We also give private one-to-one Spanish and Catalan classes. In the summer we also run a very successful Juniors Programme - Spanish for Teenagers (13-17) for 6 weeks during the whole of July and the first two weeks in August. Last year we started podcasts so that parents could listen to their kids speaking Spanish and see what they are up to" Keith Armstrong, Director of IH Tarragona

Spa - Le Méridien Ra Beach Hotel & Spa

Le Méridien Ra Beach Hotel & Spa, located on the seafront in El Vendrell,  is an exclusive thalassotherapy centre that uses purified seawater. In addition to massage, oriental therapies, seawater treatments and mud therapy, guests can enjoy the exclusive La Prairie booths as well as beauty treatments, styling, anti-aging and anti-cellulite treatments. A real treat, this is supposedly one of the most exclusive spas in Europe.
Avinguda Sanatori, 1 El Vendrell 977694200 www.starwoodhotels.com

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Boira Blava

Boira Blava offers energising and alternative massages as well as reflexology, biobody treatments and different asthetic and cosmetic treatments for the stressed out mum! There is a shop which sells natural products, objects for gifts and decoration, books and music.
Calle Mendez Nunez 11 97742223

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Conchi Perruqueria

Conchi Perruqueria is a unisex hairdressers, who also offer relaxation massage and manicures
Calle Ixart, 3 baxos 977227827

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Sisters Hairdressers

Sisters Hairdressers offers styling, manicures and even chocolate massages!
Plaza Corsini 6 977212630

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Clothes Shops

Chic
Sant Francesc, 20 977219068
Chic Boutique!

Roba Dispersa - Retro Market
Cos del bou, 19 699130034 robadispersa@gmail.com
Tarragona's only vintage shop - definitely worth a rummage.

Ca l'Avi
Calle Major 28 977243316
Boutique selling Ibiza style clothing, all pure  white cotton , printed, embroidered and all made in Ibiza. For Mums and Kids.

Navas
Baixada de la misericordia, 8 639170079
Boutique selling designer wear including Spanish label Sita Murt

Tacco Distante
Mendez Nunez, 12 977214201 www.taccodistante.com
Elegant shoe shop selling footwear form Italy

Optica Fullana
Rambla Nova, 88
Designer sunglasses from Dolce and Gabbana to Dior.

Altura
Rambla Nova 71 977236701
Pretty, lacy elegant undies of various labels including Chantelle and  Malizia by La Perla.

Ene Moda
Calle Ponent 6 977353889
Boutique selling a host of labels including Donna Karen Pure, Liu.Jo, Max Mara, Roberto Cavalli, Patrizia Pepe, and Jean Paul Gaultier.

Stefanel
Rambla Nova 67 977230059
Italian womens wear label.

Adolfo Dominguez
Rambla Nova 70 977218073 www.adolfodominguez.com
Stylish Spanish design

Zara
Colom 4-6 977224823
The Zara chain sells affordable fashion for mums and kids.