Go Costa Blanca

Cycling and the Costa Blanca go hand in hand. The Vuelta Ciclista often passes through the area, and with the mountainous region to the north there is a lot of challenging terrain. The following images come from just South of the mountains on the coastal side riding to Busot and Aguas de Busot from the [...]

Saturday mornings Alicante plays host to several street markets where you can buy pretty much any household items you need for the week. They also sell clothes, flowers and plants. These are some photos from early one Saturday while out buying some fruit and veggies for the week.

I’ve been hearing a lot of the pop-up shop idea in the last few years, but when I moved to Spain in early 2002 I ran into perhaps a predecessor to this concept: The pop-up parking lot attendant (pupla). Now, I don’t know if this is a European thing or a southern European thing or [...]

I landed at El-Altet1 at about 11:00pm. Actually, I landed in Europe and here that is 23:00. This wasn’t the first adjustment that I had to make upon arriving in Spain; the first adjustment was dealing with 17 Celsius at 23:00 on the 4th of February. People in the plane – mostly British folks coming [...]