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Known as a holiday destination for people from all around Europe, Alicante is a small city by the Spanish white coast which probably offers its best side in the summer time. This time of the year it is quite here, but it is great to stay aside and just let time fly as you are enjoying a good book at a Cafè all day. Let’s call it a holiday. I have made this last few weeks into some kind of “off-season-holiday” where I have been going to some famous summer holiday places in Spain just to have it all for myself (joking, but it the time of the year when it is least tourists here). I took a simple hotel room and started to get stationary at this location for a while. I found a gym which I started to go to in the evenings. But I still catch myself having spent too much time in bars and restaurants, as I walk down the street decorated with huge fly agarics in central Alicante.

There is a hill right next to the hotel where I stay, which has an ancient castle on top of it. Castillo De Barbara. It is probably about 150m above sea level but the rest of the town is flat. So I figured I should go up there and launch the drone to get it really high up in the air to shoot some clicks. But it turned out not being that popular by the bored security guards up there. So I had to pack it down and get away (the drone still needs to be sent for service by the way). It is worth visiting Castello de Barbara if you’re in Alicante. I would have thought it is the most famous attraction for tourists, except the restaurants and the night life, if it is season. 

Specifically the weekdays have been very calm down here now with not many tourists at all. But the weekend apparently still brings in some tourists, even though it is winter. Yesterday it was people everywhere on the streets, all dressed up in funny costumes for some kind of masquerade. So events are still happening and Alicante will still be the holiday place it is known for. I was worried that I was getting lazy and that is why I started to attend the gym again. Because it is not much to do here now and when I look back at the latest few days to find something to write about, I realize that I haven’t done anything. I guess I should call it “recharging the batteries”. Is this what Spain always does to people? Mañana…
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