Alicante

Well, after the crappy weather, we were treated to an absolutely gorgeous sunny and cool day. Unfortunately we would spend most of this day in the bus, which seems to happen quite often. One nice thing was that the storm dumped a bunch of snow on the mountains and we were treated to a magnificient site as we climbed up and around the foothills of the Sierra Nevada on our way to Alicante.

We were simply using Alicante as a place to fly out of and in fact were only spending about 10 hours there until we had to leave for our flight. Alicante is a very popular beach destination for Europeans and well connected by air to the North. We walked around town for an hour or two and actually got some really good Pallella here. Alicante is in the state of Valencia where the dish is from. It is funny because there is pallella all over the place in Spain but most of it is some pre-packaged yellow rice crap they make for tourists. It is hard to find the real hommeade stuff outside of nice restaurants in big cities and it's home in the SouthEast. We ate this and some chocolate and churros which was a nice way to say goodbye to Spain.

A wonderfully big diverse country that we spent a month in, but barely scratched the surface of. We ate and drank well and saw all the 'must see' sites and generally had a good time exploring. San Sebastian, Madrid, Granada and Catalyuna were all highlights but next time we would like to make it all the way to the west coast and down through Extremadura and deeper into the heart of Castilla La Mancha.

Hasta Luego Espana!