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COSTA BLANCA

A stroll around…Cocentaina

14 Nov 2012
Derek
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    A Fred Flintstone church, horror stories in the Gothic Room, a snake with a woman’s head…home of the socarrats.            
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Benidorm, more myths than ancient Greece

31 Oct 2012
Derek
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Say anything loud, fast, and often enough, and people will believe you. Benidorm has suffered badly because of this. Let’s dispel some myths.
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A stroll around … Xativa

31 Oct 2012
Derek
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Practically every one-horse village in Spain has a castle – Xativa’s, with its thirty towers and four gates, is one of the loveliest in Valencia.
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Succulent fruits

30 Oct 2012
Derek
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 According to the tourism authorities the Costa Blanca isn’t just the beaches of the ‘White Coast’. Inland is a whole different way of life.
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A work of art

25 Oct 2012
Derek
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Say Alicante and most people think of a city attached to one of Spain’s busiest airports. But this entre to the Costa Blanca has a thriving
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Toy town memory lane

25 Oct 2012
Derek
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At the turn of the twentieth century the small Alicante town of Ibi owed its existence to agriculture and ice cream, the latter made from snow
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