Category: Spain

This was our favourite of all the places we visited on our week in Alicante - a stunning set of waterfalls in the mountains about an hour's drive from Alicante centre. We were actually staying in El Campello, about half-an-hour north of Alicante itself, so the drive from El Campello to Fonts de l'Algar was only about 40-minutes. If you're…

We had walked around Alicante town, visiting the 'Mercat Central' market, and wandering around the streets of the 'El Barrio' old town before deciding we should head up to see the dominant feature of Alicante - the Santa Barbara castle at the top of a huge hill overlooking the town and sea. Views from the top of Santa Barbara Castle…

We were looking for a very last-minute Easter school holiday trip, anywhere warm to escape the terrible April weather. The last available flight we could find to anywhere warm was to Alicante in Spain - and the Dormio apartments resort was about a 25-minute drive or so from Alicante airport. We found the place on Airbnb. It looked decent from…

We visited Valencia Zoo (also known as Bioparc Valencia) in February half-term. We're not normally huge fans of zoos really, but Valencia Zoo was absolutely brilliant - definitely the best thing we did on our week's holiday here and definitely the best zoo and one of the best visitor attractions we've visited anywhere. It was a lovely sunny, warm day…

With Covid travel restrictions being lifted and travelling becoming easier, we decided to use the February half-term as a chance to escape the depressing winter weather in the UK and head to Spain on a last-minute five-day city break to Valencia.  A welcome escape from the UK winter Storms were battering England as we left, so we were pleased to…