Christmas shopping
 

Can you tell me if the shops are open over the Xmas holidays as we will be flying over from the uk on boxing day
Cheers

Re: Christmas shopping
 

Yes they will be open...no Boxing day in Spain.

Re: Christmas shopping
 

1st Jan is a public holiday, and so is 6th Jan, which is on a Sunday this year. In some places this means everything will be closed on Monday 7th. But it depends where you are!

Calendario Laboral 2013

Re: Christmas shopping
 

I'll be in the Tarragona area
Cheers

Re: Christmas shopping
 

Looks like they will be open on the 7th. Here are the dates of all the public holidays for Catalunya next year.

Días festivos Cataluña 2013

Martes 01/01/2013 Año Nuevo
Domingo 06/01/2013 Epifanía
Martes 19/03/2013 Día del Padre
Viernes 29/03/2013 Viernes Santo
Domingo 31/03/2013 Pascua
Lunes 01/04/2013 Lunes de Pascua
Miércoles 01/05/2013 Día internacional de los trabajadores
Jueves 15/08/2013 Asunción de María
Miércoles 11/09/2013 Día de Cataluña
Sábado 12/10/2013 Día de la Raza
Viernes 01/11/2013 Día de Todos Los Santos
Viernes 06/12/2013 Día de la Constitución España
Domingo 08/12/2013 Inmaculada Concepción
Domingo 08/12/2013 Día de la Madre
Miércoles 25/12/2013 Navidad

Re: Christmas shopping
 

Seems like we miss out over in the uk
Thanks for typing all the dates out this will come in handy
When we finally move in.
Cheers

Re: Christmas shopping
 

I didn't type them in darling, I cut-and-pasted! :D

There are more public holidays in Spain than UK but the annual holiday allowance is less, so it works out about the same.