The Costa Blanca is a well-known tourist area on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. However most visitors to the northern part of Costa Blanca head for the bustling town of Benidorm and miss out on the attractive, small town of L’Albir and city of Altea just a few miles away. And, believe me, they are completely different to Benidorm!
STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on a cruise with his wife to the Canary Islands. During the winter months we usually find a holiday location for a couple of weeks to escape the cold weather. This year we decided to try a cruise to the Canary Islands rather than flying, and we chose the […]
A car journey through Europe of fifteen hundred miles requiring about twenty-four hours of driving seemed a bit daunting at first. However, having spent some time in September at our holiday home near Lake Balaton in Hungary, we decided to check out the feasibility of heading south-west to Albir, near Benidorm in Spain, in order […]
Spectacular scenery with soaring mountains and hill-top villages, plus historic cities and towns with some of the most outstanding buildings in the world. This is probably not what the term Spanish Costas brings to mind. Yes, of course, the Spanish Costas have great beaches with plenty of reasonably priced accommodation, particularly outside the busy summer […]
STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, and his wife report on their driving tour around Northern Spain. In our younger days, we both worked full-time and, with two boys in tow, Southern Spain or Majorca were our usual holiday destinations. We would choose a one-centre package holiday on the coast, as the boys were happy with a heated swimming […]
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Scenic Day Trips from Benidorm: Calpe, Elche, Guadalest, Valencia
This article covers four places in easy reach of Benidorm that I’ve particularly enjoyed visiting: Calpe about 20 km north-east, Elche about 70 km south-west, Guadalest up in the hills about 20 km north-west and Valencia 140 km north-east.