Thursday September 18th 2008

No idea as to what we're doing today... we have plans on going to Alicante, Spain, however we have no idea how we're going to do so or where we're gonna stay when we get there. Whatever... we packed up and left our nifty little hotel room and champed it down through the plazas towards the bus station. It really sucks carrying packs in places where round-a-bouts are popular because you usually have to go all the way around just to get to the other side.... sure miss the good ol fashioned North American intersection. We ended finding a bus to take us to Alicante at 3:00 so we went to the grocery store to pick up some food to make some sandwiches.. when we got back with our goods we crafted the world's best sandwiches... let me tell you all about them; start it off with a fresh baked baguette, throw some garlic mayo and mustard for sauce, slice up some random moon shaped cheese, layer on the smoked meat (which we assume was beef), then comes the lettuce and tomatoes... yikes.

Just outside the bus station at terminal 1 there was a wicked mound of cement shaped perfectly into a giant bank that SHOULD have been skateboarded, however the whistle bearing security whistled me away from doing so... that's so pathetic. Whatever, we got on the bus and began our 5 hour ride to Alicante. The country of Spain is weird, picture a desert with a little bit of shrubbery growing randomly with some casual cacti here and there... and this is all taking place on mountains, or maybe you could call them giant hills... either way I've never seen anything like this place or anywhere that lacked so much green. Along the road there were a whole lot of run down and busted up old-school houses and a lot of little farms where they were growing some sort of trees... I'm guessing for some sort of fruit picking.

We got into Alicante around 9 and searched around for an hour or so for the cheapest place to stay... apparently hostels don't exist here so we found a cheap little hotel room with a pretty wicked little balcony overlooking this interesting little castle city. Apparently all cities around here evolve around castles.

Tomorrow should be a wicked day, we're going to go take the walk up the million stair stair set to the top of the castle and hopefully make it to the beach after.

Adios