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Alicante
Travel Blogs from Alicante, Spain and Canary Islands
Viva Espana – oder so?…
Kaum haben wir Portugal verlassen und spanisches Hoheitsgebiet betreten, wird das Wetter schlecht. Wir lassen Sevilla links liegen (ich war schon 2x dort und Theo wurde dort ausgeraubt) und fahren direkt nach Tarifa. Morgen soll es einen Stierkampf ...
Back to the beginning
... has now passed, and now that I am back, I don't have the inclination to kick that lazy sleeping dog anymore. Best let it lie and sun itself until perhaps another tomorrow. Not sure that his log is the best place for this. Maybe will have to do another non ...
Semana 2 : Quiero
... bonne bien que un peu grasse - Le campus est toujours aussi beau même quand il "ne" fait "pas" très beau. - Alicante a beau être une ville jumelée à Wenzhou, il n'y a pas (encore) beaucoup de chinois donc pas encore ...
Espana! (At Last)
I flew into Alicante because it was cheap and had no expectations. Because I arrived around midnight, I had to take a taxi into the town itself, which was quite expensive. I quickly learned to try and use what I could remember from Spanish class, because ...
Birthday Beach Bums
March 26th-28th Alicante. The name sounds spicy and hot. Like the place. Alicante is a small city on the southern coast, surrounded by the Mediterranean. We went to Alicante for Mariela's birthday. It was the two of us and Kelsey (the one who goes to ...
Day 4: Visiting with friends in Alicante
Feb 15 Took the very comfortable three and half hour train ride to Alicante on the coast to visit David and Mercedes Stuart. It was snowing lightly as we left Madrid and much of the landscape, until we neared the coast, had a light layer of snow. It was ...
Semana 7 & 8: Poker
Femmes! Passez au thème suivant! Ici, je fais du volley et je prends des cours de salsa. Parfois, j'écoute Justin sous ma douche. Je dois aussi faire mes courses, mon linge et la vaisselle. J'avais besoin d'une certaine manière d'affirmer ma ...
Travel to caravan
Flew from Dublin to Alicante, Spain by Ryanair(£85rtn). Got a hire car(£82 4 7days) and drove upto Benidorm, driving on the wrong side of the road takes a bit to get used to, a tip someone gave me was the driver is always in the middle of the ...
The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly...Where I am.
Hola from Espana! Leaving London really was awful. I miss it so much already! And it certainly doesn't help that I was greeted in Spain by bad weather. I am here with a couple friends from high school: Greg (studying at University ...
Archaeology trip!!
Great trip... Too bad that our Prof isn't at SLU-Mad any more. He was hard, but so funny as ...
Caminamos en Alicante
... two cathedrals, San Nicolas y Santa Barbara. The pictures later are from our visit to two little pueblos just outside of Alicante; Guadalest and Altea. In the little town of Guadalest is a beautiful castle that we went to see and in Altea there was ...
Semanas 19~22: Londres, Media Maratón, Esgrima
* Londres: Me voici à Londres après un voyage qui m'a coûté au total 8€ depuis Alicante... Londres c'est tellement une belle ville! Les rues animées, les édifices blancs, les bus... Jean-Louis m'accueille dans son appartement et l'argent ...
Noches en Alicante
Les parents d'une amie font l'honneur de me reccevoir chez eux. Je devais partir au bout d'une nuit, finalement, je reste un jour de plus, tellement je suis bien reçu ;-) Paella, Manchego, Turron, Palmera, Granizado de limon, Horchata... bref, je ...
The Rain in Spain stays NOT mainly in the plain..
Verschrikkelijk .. De vliegende Hollanders zijn er aan voor de moeite, want het regent hier pijpestelen.. Vandaag 3 keer moeten schuilen wegens zwaar onweer (met donder & bliksems inclusief ..) Nog nooit ZO van een "Superior Room" genoten wegens ...
Ich bin ein Held. nein, ehrlich!
... weg, krass oder? gestern abend waren wir noch auf dem Castillo Santa Babara, das ist auf einem Berg mitten in Alicante. sehr sehr empfehlenswert, auch wenn einen der Aufstieg fast umbringt (einerseits wegen der Hitze und andererseits wegen viel zu ...
Pre-Departure
This is my blog for going abroad to Alicante, Spain for the summer of 2011. I will be leaving in five days and arriving in Madrid for a field study for about four days before I arrive in Alicante. I will be staying with a host family while I study at the ...
Alicante
Champagne Breakfast
... . Feeling brighter we went on to the pub where Emily had a good time on her birthday, we spent a good last night in Alicante and Barcelona won! Safe to say we ended the night in high spirits. As for the other days, we walked up the Santa Barbara ...
Semana 4: Botellón
... beau temps. Étude: C'est étrange comme sensation de devoir réfléchir en plein vacance... Église: Je continue mon tour d'Alicante des églises mais il va falloir que je me pose. Moustiques: Ces bestioles ont vu en moi un gros Big ...
Bus station again?
... using this ALSA kmtriko bus pass is the uslessnes of the ALSA people. Several times ticket staff have said to go to the next city and buy the ticket there. Rather than they and work out what we want. In Madrid we wanted to go to Valencia. But ALSA don't ...
Random Notes and Language Victories
... just as fast on a Spanish keyboard as an American one. They´re more different than you would think. The University of Alicante campus has so many water features. Tons of fountains and reflecting ponds. I discover a new one every ...
Things I've learned
... haven't I been doing that forever? My blog has had over 300 hits. That's nice . Well, that wraps up 4 weeks in Spain. I'm 1/3 of the way done. Can't believe it. I've included a few random pictures from my runs by the beach and ...
¿Quién vive en la piña debajo del mar?
... out that those shows were in Valenciano, the local dialect, which is actually quite different from Spanish. The University of Alicante campus is completely bilingual, so I´m picking up on some Valenciano. I started going out at night on Wednesday. ...
Semana 3: Perdido
... prochain, on parlera que français. * Samedi: Yusuke, Thijs et moi décidâmes d'aller à Valence (située à 100km d'Alicante) car Yusuke voulait acheter une bass et que nous, nous voulions visiter. C'est une ville splendide mélangeant modernisme ...
Don't Call My Name....Alicaaaanteeee
... with various ingredients. Ours had chicken, shrimp, crawfish, mussels, and vegetables. It also originated in the region of Spain where Alicante is located which is one reason we decided to go have it). I don't think I have ever been so ...
A not-so-welcomed arrival!
... didn't know it at the time, but that place I hated oh-so-much in the beginning, soon became one of the dearest places in my heart. Alicante is where I spend ten months discovering myself, new cultures, new places, and of course... oh, yes... studying :] ...
Semana 5 & 6: Valencia
... et...mon billet de train. J'ai réussi à acheter un billet in extremis avant le départ du train pour retourner à Alicante. Je vous raconte pas l'état dans lequel j'aurai été sinon. Restons dans la même thématique: Trois jours plus tard, je ...