Elche is famous for its palm groves – a vast, UNESCO-listed forest of date palms unlike anywhere else in Europe. But this walk headed the other way, up into the dry hills behind the town, to see what is there: canals, sculptures, and one animal I could not quite identify. If you have time for…
Alicante is easy to do badly – sun, beach, sangria, repeat. This was an attempt to do it differently: to skip the obvious and find the city that the package tours tend to miss. If you have time for nothing else, watch the film first. Everything below is the context. Where I went Alicante sits…
Tabarca is the little island off the coast near Alicante – a short boat ride out to clear water, an old walled village, and the feel of somewhere time forgot. It started as close to a perfect day trip as you can get. Then a small personal mishap turned things sideways. A walled island in…
No taxi, no bus – just a thumb out by the road. I set off from the airport hotel near Alicante to reach the salt hills of Santa Pola, hitchhiking the old-fashioned way and seeing who would stop. Salt, flamingos and white hills Santa Pola sits beside vast salt pans – the salinas – where…
Arriving late and full of confidence, I decided to walk out of Alicante airport into the night rather than wait for a bus. It did not go to plan – no pavements, no signs, and a growing certainty that I’d taken a wrong turn in the dark. A lesson in not doing this Airports aren’t…