Off to Alicante! Day Five

Under a rubber tree!

We needed to take a break from planning our upcoming week in Andalucia, so on Saturday we headed to Alicante, the capitol city of Alicante province. About an hour north of where we're staying, Alicante is a good sized city with a beautiful waterfront and lots of superb parks and trees. It's an old city, springing up on the ruins of the Roman colony of Luceum. We soon realized that there's lots to see and this trip would be the first of a few.The city has a great variety of history, green space, shopping, and food.We're yet to eat real Spanish food as the town where we're staying caters mostly to Northern  Europeans. Today it was paella for me. Pretty good lunch portion. I think I can find better!

Alicante's bike paths are marked with brass discs in the pavement

We're both intrigued by the old castle on the hill that you get to through a tunnel. We'll definitely need to see this!