Man books 38th holiday to same hotel but for the first time without his wife
A pensioner has booked his 38th trip to the same hotel in Majorca – but this time he will be without his beloved wife.
Jimmy Dolan, from Glasgow, will be returning to the TUI SUNEO Haiti in Ca’n Picafort, which is where he met his wife for the first time in 1981.
But this trip will mark the 86-year-old’s first time he is visiting without his wife Patricia, who sadly passed away from Parkinson’s disease.
On her last visit in 2015, the staff at the hotel went out of their way to make her stay as comfortable as possible.
And despite Patricia being in a wheelchair, the family was still able to enjoy one last holiday in Majorca together.
But Jimmy is not going alone, as daughter Ellen, 57, is also going flying out with him, and has been since she was 15.
Ellen has also introduced her daughter Maria, to the hotel, and has taken her 12 times.
The family and hotel staff are so close that after Maria celebrated her First Communion in 2014, the hotel celebrated with a presentation for her, as well as some gifts.
Jimmy first stayed at the hotel by complete chance 42 years ago, after he won a singing competition and decided to book a family holiday to Majorca.
A British couple recently got their motorhome stuck down a narrow street in Granada, Spain.
They are thought to have got into the mess by ignoring a sign warning larger vehicles to avoid the centre.
Luckily a tow-truck and local police came to the couple’s rescue but it took four hours to save them.
The unnamed couple managed to continue their journey but had damaged their motorhome and the wall of one of the houses they were wedged between.
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