A home movie produced by Donald Oates of a family holiday to the coastal town of Salou in the province of Tarragona in north-eastern Spain where the family owned a holiday home. The first part of the films shows the family on-board the ferry from Southampton to Bilboa. On the beach at Salou the relax on the sand or swim in the sea alongside friends and family including a teenage boy who features through most of the film. The final part of the film shows them returning to the United Kingdom...

A home movie produced by Donald Oates of a family holiday to the coastal town of Salou in the province of Tarragona in north-eastern Spain where the family owned a holiday home. The first part of the films shows the family on-board the ferry from Southampton to Bilboa. On the beach at Salou the relax on the sand or swim in the sea alongside friends and family including a teenage boy who features through most of the film. The final part of the film shows them returning to the United Kingdom onboard the same ship that brought them. A Swedish Lloyd Ferry poster reads ‘The Shortest Route to Sunny Spain’ changes to Swedish Lloyd luggage tag for ‘Southampton Bilbao Service’. The camera pulls back from a road sign that reads ‘Cabo Salou’. On the deck of the ferry boys play a game of shuffleboard while the adults relax in deck chairs. A woman is asleep in her chair, a Swedish flag flies from a mast. Another Swedish Lloyd ferry passes in the opposite direction. A woman and two boys sit at a table inside a cabin before they return to the deck and sit in deck chairs. Near to a beach people enjoying two pedalo’s or paddle boats on the water, two sailing yacht pass in the opposite direction. A boy walking along a beach changes to a woman walking along a cliff edge. She sits in the shade on the balcony of their holiday home drinking a cup of tea, the two boys sitting beside her. One of the boys sits at a table, a box of Cornflakes beside him. On a beach a man holds a small child sitting on a lilo in the water, the woman sits nearby chatting. Back at their house an older boy with blonde hair sits with the two other boys. On a table beside them a number of brochures for Salou. A number of ships are moored in a small harbour surrounded near to a small town. People walk past, in the distance a number of modern hotels or apartments blocks. Back at their home and sitting on deck chairs in the shade the two boys eating food from plates. The blond teenager sits nearby next to a teenage girl. On the beach a woman in white bathing suit stands in the water before turning and heading back onto the sand. Two boys come along a path away from the beach, from the cliffs other boys playing in the surf and a crowded beach below. The blonde teenager swims in the sea as the woman relaxes on the sand. The two boys play a ball game on the sand before digging a hole and standing in it covering their feet. From the holiday home a sunset, inside the box relax sitting on a chair and sofa reading. On the balcony the woman sits reading a book. The boys come up a set of steps away from tables at an outdoor café. Below that an empty pool with the sea beyond it. The family stand atop of another set of steps followed by a stone building next to the sea. Near to a beach the family sit together in the shade beside a modern building. Back at their house the family sits on their balcony, one of them wearing a wide brimmed sombrero. Another is drawing one of the boys. Cars are parked along a boulevard next to a high walled building or church. A marble mural hangs from the wall of the building, a stone bridge crosses the Onyar River. On board the ferry back to Southampton the woman and blonde teenager sit relaxing in deckchairs. A small crowd watches as another ferry heads in the opposite direction towards Spain. The boys play shuffleboard on deck as the adults sit in deckchairs. A cargo ship travels past in the opposite direction and the teenage boy looks out to sea from the deck. On the car deck parked vehicles, the ship docked along a quayside. The film ends on traffic travelling along a country road and a road junction.