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Linda and I often take a trip to Valencia when I visit but she suggested we go to Xativa instead, which also happened to feature in my Lonely Planet Encounters guide to Valencia as a day trip from there, being 60km southwest of the city. Linda had been told of a good restaurant there by […]
Read MoreYesterday evening we ate an early supper and then drove into Benissa, the nearest town, for a concert by the local Benissa choir. A free concert in a large hall, we weren’t too sure what to expect, but were reasonably optimistic as a friend of Linda and George’s, Claire, a soprano, was taking part. As […]
Read MoreI’m so lucky that my good friends Linda and George live in a beautiful part of Spain and invite me to stay with them often. It’s actually a couple of years since I was last here as the three of us had a holiday together in Istanbul last year. They live about halfway between Alicante […]
Read MoreWe woke to a brilliantly sunny and gorgeous day. And what better way to begin than a glass of freshly squeezed Valencian oranges – the ones we bought in Calpe market yesterday. The sweet full flavour of these local oranges can’t be compared to any juice that comes in a carton. I just slowly drank […]
Read MoreCalpe isn’t the prettiest of villages in this part of Spain but there’s a good market there on Saturday morning and it’s where Linda regularly goes to buy the weekly fruit and vegetables. Most importantly for this orange loving blogger, it’s where she buys oranges to juice for breakfast. She doesn’t drink it herself, but […]
Read MoreA day trip to Valencia with Linda has become part of our routine when I stay. Spain’s third largest city is beautiful and I love visiting it. From the gorgeous19th century neoclassical buildings in the historic centre to the stunning space-age architecture of the City of Arts and Sciences in eastern Valencia, designed by the […]
Read MoreAfter I finished yesterday’s post, we moved into the nia for some fizz – cava, of course, as we’re in Spain – and a plate of tapas Linda had made and nuts. We live according more to a Spanish clock than an English one, with meals later than I’d have at home. However, the Spanish […]
Read MoreI woke to another warm day after a good night’s sleep. It takes a little while for the sun to come up but it was still lovely to swim in the pool before breakfast and enjoy the magnificent view. What a fabulous treat to be able to enjoy this. And how lucky I am to […]
Read MoreThe flight from Gatwick to Alicante is only a couple of hours long but it’s always a long day’s travelling by the time you’ve added in all the travel to the airport and waiting time there. Despite checking in online and printing our boarding cards it still took an hour to drop our bags off […]
Read MoreWith this wonderful Indian summer and temperatures soaring into the late twenties, it’s quite easy to capture a little of Spain in the garden at the moment. I brought home some wonderful Serrano ham that I bought in the market in Valencia last week (see Day Trip to Valencia), nicely vacuum-packed by the stallholder for […]
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