The flight to Alicante was an early one, leaving from Gatwick at 7am and arriving in Spain at 9:30am (10:30am local time). This was a quick flight which I slept through mostly. Once arriving we took the bus into the town centre and got off at the beach.
Surprisingly to us we saw a few people on the beach sunbathing whilst we were wrapped up in about 3 layers of clothes. We thought they might well have been British, as we seem to take our clothes off at the first sign of sun!
Nice view over the sea from the Promenade |
The next day we went to the Basilica Santa Maria (church) after breakfast and were lucky enough to see a bit of a service taking place. They were praying and then just going up for communion, it was all very solemn. Afterwards we went to the modern art museum opposite from the basilica. This was very interesting and we saw some good pieces of art, but we also saw some things that make you think, "How is that classed as artwork?!"
Entrance to Basilica Santa Maria |
Beautiful views over Alicante and the ocean from Santa Barbara Castle |
The following day after we visited the local market as we heard this is the best place to go to buy food in a lot of Spanish cities. At the local market we saw a big collection of stalls selling groceries, meat, fish, olives and bread, with a fair share of them offering better than supermarket prices (always a nice addition). Afterwards we were planning to head to Elche, but unfortunately Carmen wasn't feeling too well so we decided to stay at the hostal. Later in the afternoon however Carmen was feeling better so we went out for a walk along the promenarde and got some wine, which we had with dinner on the terrace.
An old boat and statue called "The Surfer" along the promenade |
The evening turned out to be really nice and we had fun when we went for a stroll on the beach at night when it is quiet. We also had fun climbing to the top of a big rope construction that was on the beach, like proper kids!
Carmen at the top of the rope construction |
Carmen by some of the palm trees |
We then walked some more through the town centre and visited another church and also a panaderia (bakers), where Carmen bought a potato empanada (pastry), which she really enjoyed. We walked back through the palmerie afterwards and stopped for a late lunch there. It then started to rain so we took shelter.
After it stopped raining we decided to get the bus back to Alicante. We were then going to get the tram in the afternoon to a place called Denia, but the tram would not have been running by the time we wanted to go back so we just had another wander around Alicante instead and got to see some really good street art graffiti.
Graffiti street art in Alicante (seems to be popular in quite a few cities! |
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