Alicante

A short port day in Alicante, but as we'd visited before we opted for a later - by which I mean 8.30ish - breakfast in the buffet...and it was carnage! Mercifully there were free tables in the Wake View Bar so we stole our food out for an al fresco breakfast overlooking the ocean.

In town, the free Museu de Fogueres was a superb find. In an annual festival that sounds like Bonfire Night on steroids, sculptors make massive paper mache statues parodying recent political figures or events to be burnt at the culmination of the festival. The museum had some of the statues saved from the flames by popular vote and costumes of those involved. The American tour group that followed us into this small museum had the loudest tour guide we have ever come across - the group definitely did not need the ear pieces they were wearing!

Up the street is the Central Market, where Ben managed to accidentally order octopus 🐙 we found a nice looking stall and he enquired about the octopus on display, and whilst we ordered a beer and looked at the menu the octopus promptly arrived unannounced! He said it was delicious at least, as was the anchovy tapas that he actually ordered.

With an early departure, and Gibraltar tomorrow, we holed up again for an afternoon in a Hollywood Club cabin next to the pool. We've been really lucky to get one every day given there are only eight in here.もっと詳しく