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Activity Breaks
Cookery Courses
Visit the local market and choose the ingredients you need in order to cook that special supper for a friend.
Learn to cook the local dishes and impress your friends when you get home. Learn to make bread: it really IS easy and so delicious.
Is there a dish you have always wanted to cook and haven’t dared try? Come and spend the week-end at Cal Carreter and see how easy and how economical cooking can be.
Prices: One day cookery course from 10 am to 4 pm including lunch with wine: 90 € per person.
 
Tourism

Visiting the tourist sights of the Costa Brava. There are many guide books, maps and other tourist information in the house. Melissa has forty years experience of life in the area and is happy to give you lots of tips about where to go, where to eat, what to visit or where to shop, etc.

Bird Watching

Bird life is abundant and exotic.
We see golden oriols, bee-eaters, hoopooes or nightingales in the garden and a range of raptors including buzzards, egrets and herons in the local fields.

Aiguamolls de l’Empordà Bird Sanctuary is only a 40 minute drive.

 
Painting

The area is full of every sort of exciting subjects to paint:

Seasonal colours, medieval villages, Catalan life, flora and fauna, wonderful sunsets, etc.

Come with a group of painter friends, share your ideas and achievements in idyllic surroundings and enjoy an excellent meal afterwards or stay a little longer and do your own thing away from the madding crowd.

 
Walking

There are walks to suit all abilities.

Around the hamlet of Millàs there are many walks in the gentle hills, on dirt tracks or from one village to another with places to visit or views to see or wild flowers to find on the way.