Costa Brava Beach Camp

Any free time is easily filled round here: there are plenty of restaurants and bars to try out in town (a five-minute drive or half-hour walk), but if something more active is called for, try the ziplines and climbing walls at Costa Brava Parc Aventura, or test mettle on the highest rope course in Costa Brava, Everest Costa Brava – both within 25 minutes’ walk of the site. Fancy splashing around instead? There’s a waterpark five minutes’ drive away, and swimming, canoeing, kayaking and boating at Banyoles lake, an hour from the site. Landlubbers won’t be left high and dry here either – there’s bike and Segway hire at the lake, as well as lots of mountain biking routes and walking trails. City days are handily taken care of in Barcelona and Girona: head to the latter (40 minutes from base) for museums, old city walls and monasteries, and make the 85-minute journey to the Catalonia capital for museums, Gaudí architecture, the old Gothic quarter, an aquarium, a zoo, and the world-famous La Sagrada Familia.