Alicante, Spain Travel Blogs

Almeria to Alicante
Nov 22, 2005

Our trip from the Costa del sol east to Alicante has been quite diverse in landscapes, from the very over developed southern beach resorts through dry mountainous desert areas covered in poly-tunnels growing crops for export, and back to very developed ...

granada, the alhambra and alicante
Mar 13, 2006 (9 photos)

... sample too much food, cooked at the campsite, but definitely looked like a place to eat, drink and be merry. - bus onto alicante, our flying out point... alicante - not such a bad place, only had an afternoon and then the following morning. ...

Ein gewoehnlicher Tag in Alicante
Jul 15, 2009 (10 photos)

Hallo Leute! Uff, ich habe viel zu lernen! Ich bin im Anfangskurs 2 gelandet. Jeden Tag lernen wir tonnenweise Verben und konjugieren wie die... Als Abwechslung kann ich ja mit Andrea und uebrigens auch mit jedem einzelnen von unserer Gruppe deutsch reden ...

Attending a Language Course whilst getting tanned
Jul 10, 2009 (17 photos)

... . Dann geht´s los...... Waehrend des Fluges gibt es mehrere Turbulenzen, unser kleines Flugzeug wir "ghoerig" durcheinandergeruettelt. In Alicante angekommen, dank EU gibt¨s keine Passkontrollen, sitzen wir noch im Airport--Cafe denn wir koennen erst ab 3 ...

First day in Alicante
Jan 15, 2007

I finally arrived last night, was met at the meeting point by my landlord, and was shown to my apartment and left there to settle in.  None of my roommates were there.  I waited for them until I got too cold and went to buy a sweater.  ...

ONE SEASON ENDS... GERMANY- SPAIN
Dec 10, 2008

... were descending.  (Our car trip to the airport was longer than our actual flight!)   As we landed in Alicante airport, I looked out the window to the cloudless skies, into the mountains of Spain, and took a deep breath - we ...

Do you know the way to San Jose?
May 21, 2009

... there own currency! In-between this plastic wilderness is a natural park area along the cost, just how you imagine Spain will be, lots of little jelly mold mountains surrounded by desert scrub, apparently they filmed allot of spaghetti westerns here, ...

Learning Spanish
Aug 15, 2006

Spent a month in Spain learning spanish...

Ein Nachmittag im Shoppingcenter
Jul 16, 2009

¡Holà! ¿Qué tal?        Gestern war ich im groessten ShoppingCenter von hier bis Oslo. Die hatten wirklich alles. Neben Vero Moda, C&A und Mango hatten die muchos andere Kleider-Laeden. Am meisten beeindruckte aber der ...

Alicante
Aug 18, 2006

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Siestas, Surf, Sun, Sand and Panella!
Mar 31, 2007 (32 photos)

... from the runs rays and l haven't been able to wipe the smile off my face the whole day and evening train ride to Valencia where we traveled passed the lush fertile plains of Murcia. It was a perfect day in Alicante Spain!       

Viva Espania
Sep 8, 2008

... holiday was all about the lazing by the pool and it was way too hot to go out for the day most days.but we did pop up to Alicante for an afternoon. Alicante is a very pretty port town, with an impressive marina full of yachts. How the other half live eh? ...

Day 33 - The rain in Spain falls mainly....
Nov 3, 2006 (9 photos)

Buenos Dias! The rain in Spain falls mainly .....in Alicante. Can you believe it - we had a rainy day today. We slept well last night - not a lot of movement - I think that we only traveled a bit then set anchor and waited until the early a.m. to travel ...

Granada - Alicante
Jun 25, 2007 (5 photos)

Alicante, Spain
Feb 18, 2007 (21 photos)

This past weekend I went on a trip starting in Alicante then to Amsterdam. After an 11 hour bus ride (ouch!) I arrived into Alicante at 9:30 AM last Friday (Feb 16, 2007). With a few hours to kill until my roommate David was finished with school (he is ...

Badeausflüge
Jul 20, 2009 (3 photos)

mit Andrea, Kirstin und Isabelle, Christine, Edyta Wie schön ist es im Meer zu plantschen, durch die hohen Wellen zu   hüpften, tauchen, köpfeln und zu kraulen. Manchmal fühlt man sich in die Kindheit zurückversetzt, ist dir das auch schon passiert ...

Southern Spain
Nov 1, 2009 (5 photos)

So today is our last day and we are both ready to be done with it!  We arrived not until noon in Alicante and we had reserved an excursion to see two towns near Alicante.  One was Jalon and is famous for Muscatel wine and the other was Aleta ...

Zeilrace wordt zeilreis en onze eerste bezoeker.
Sep 4, 2006 (20 photos)

... . Fons merkt op dat ie maar geen zee ziet en mij valt het op dat ik zo weinig herken van de heenweg! "Marina Alicante" vraaag ik opnieuw? "Si, La Marina de Alicante" klinkt het geïrriteerd vanachter het stuur. Na nog een kwartier snelweg met de zon vóór ons ...

Universitat d´Alacant
Jan 19, 2007

... anything else you guys want to read about.  I´m pretty behind on all the stuff we did between Segovia and our arrival at Alicante, as well as stuff about the city itself.  Hopefully I´l be able to catch up before I forget everything, but in the ...

Boy was I wrong about the chocolate
Jan 20, 2007 (1 photos)

Well, I guess I thought I was smarter than the guide book or something, but I'm gonna need to go ahead and retract my previous statements about the hot chocolate.  I went into a little greasy spoon type place last night and ordered me a cup of hot ...

El recorrido Inicial // Interrail
Sep 15, 2009

... am rhein - zürich 25sept: zürich - lucerna - interlaken  26sept: interlaken - grindelwald 27sept: Grindelwald - interlaken - berna 28sept: berna - laussane - montreaux - fribourg  29sept: fribourg - basel - vuelo a alicante  

La Playa!!
Jun 4, 2006

Alicante Spain on the mediterranean coast is a vibrant beach town with a huge castle atop a hill overlooking the Sea and town. The people are very friendly here in southern Spain and the water is clear and warm. We are staying in a nice hostel that has a ...

A beginner´s guide to Spanish
Apr 8, 2008 (8 photos)

A beginner´s guide to learning Spanish (Jill & Cam style) 1. Get a lisp. Pretend you are the little girl in the Brady Bunch or Bugs Bunny. 2. Stick labels all over your apartment 3. Buy fruit and veges at the local market. We don´t actually know ...

Another Lost in Translation moment
Apr 20, 2008 (1 photos)

... at Australia Post to send our replacement iPod (plus a few other items like my new AMEX and driver´s licence) to us in Alicante, Spain. She insured the package too, which is always a good idea...one would think. Cameron and I recieved a small notice via ...

Levante
Mar 30, 2008

Levante

Sun, sand and the Mediterranean
Jun 4, 2006 (10 photos)

04/06/06: From the sunny shores of Alicante, Spain Hola, once again from the beautiful country of Spain. Where the people are friendly, the tapas are plentiful and the Sangria/Cerveza flows freely. We spent a few days in Granada, the subject of my ...

First day of classes
Jan 17, 2007

... looks like.  My Tuesday/Thursday is just the Track IV and the Seminar. Yesterday my friend Jenny and I went walking around Alicante.  We made it about 1/4 the way up to see the Castilla de Santa Barbara, but it was getting a little dark ...

Costa Blanca
Sep 20, 2006 (10 photos)

bon un ti 2hrs de train pour me rendre sur des plages de sable blanc...va voir ça!!

catching up
Feb 2, 2007 (1 photos)

I've been getting the vibe that you guys think I don't update enough. Well, it's true.  I'm overdue for a pictorial on the city and my school, but I just havn't gotten around to going on a photo excursion.  Soon, though, maybe this weekend. ...

Between the Mountains and the Sea
Jul 28, 2005

We arrived a few days ago to the beautiful city of Alicante, located on Spain´s Costa Blanca looking out onto the Mediterranean sea. On the train from Madrid we saw some amazing scenery of the desert-like terrain that covers much of central Spain and of the ...