Alicante
27.12.2010 - 29.12.2010
15 °C
After a fantastic Xmas at home with the parents the very first step on the journey presented some challenges. 3, to be precise: train strikes, heavy snow and a broken plane. Grrreat. 11 frustrating hours later I arrived in Alicante to meet my friend Rafael.
I highly recommend waking up to a perfect blue sky and 15 degrees after Xmas in Cumbria. Cumbria has been below freezing, even at midday, for some 4 weeks (and down to -15 at night).
Had a 2 day tour of the countryside around Alicante, including the biggest hand-crafted nativity I’ve ever seen* – courtesy of the local ‘caja’ – a bank for personal savings where profits are invested in community projects. And Vince told us that separating high street and ‘casino’ banking wasn’t viable..
Southern Spain looks almost exactly like a copy of South America, particularly Havanna. Although I have a feeling the ‘copying’ might have happened the other way round.
- ok so it would probably only have to be about a foot long to be the biggest nativity I’ve ever seen, but this was BIG. Like 50 metres wide. Including Herrod´s palace, Gabriel and his crew, Jerusalem...
Posted by Stevie_A 31.12.2010 10:43 Archived in Spain
