Hotel Nh Cristal Alicante
Tomas Lopez Torregrosa 11 Alicante, Costa Blanca, Valencian Country, 03002, Spain and Canary Islands
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God bless the Spanish
Saturday, after 24 hours of airports and planes, I landed in Alicante. Even though I got an exit row seat for the ride from Dallas to Madrid, I couldn't sleep at all on the plane. Then I had a short layover in Madrid and an hour long flight to Alicante.
Alicante is sunny and beautiful. Even though I had only slept about 4 of the past 48 …
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Champagne Breakfast
... for the other days, we walked up the Santa Barbara castle to see a beautiful view of the city, the mountains and the ocean. Did you know Alicante is a semi-desert?
We saw some ancient Roman ruins, which in my opinion should have been left untouched because they were restored to the point of looking too modern.
Victor and Cecilia are lovely and generous people. They took us to some swish ...
Fantastico Alicante!
The next stop on our Spanish tour was the coastal city of Alicante, a small city on the Mediterranean Sea. Alicante has greenery all over, lovely promenades, a beautiful marina and the Castle of where Santa Barbara. It was a great place to break our journey from Granada to Valencia. Arriving in the city, we first went to our hotel, Les Monges Palace. LMP is a quirky hotel near Postiguet beach in a historical ...
Joining the Brits abroad
... we fought gallantly against the tide of restaurant owners trying to pull us into their haunts. By following the dolcit tones of a local, we discovered a hole in the wall tapas eatery that blew us away - Cerveceria Sento. Patatas Bravas, lamb burgers, balsamic chicken and meat straight off the hock - all very simple but oh so very good. We failed miserably on the second night as we succumbed to the bright lights and sales pitch of a young spaniard in what turned out to be ...
To the National Park....almost
Headed inland today to visit the Sierra Espuna National park. The intention was to do some hiking......but what happened next was really stupid. As we cimbed higher and higher in the van we noticed we didnt have much gas....a somewhat serious thing when you are going up a mountain.
Almost all ...



