From Granada, we embarked on a long road trip to Alicante, which is a beach town on the Eastern coast of Spain. Before the trip, I taught Theresa how to drive stick because the rental car we got was a manual. This was the first time in the trip that Theresa drove stick for a long period of time. She stalled quite a few times. :)

We stopped in a city called Cartagena on the way thinking we could find a good place to eat there. We were sorely mistaken. It was basically a military base and an industrial section. Pretty boring. AND it took us 45 minutes just to find our way out!

We drove along the coast for a while, with nice views most of the way. On the side of the road in a few places were large black bulls. To this day I don’t know what those were for. There was a restaurant chain on the highway where we had really good paella, and a half bottle of wine (we had to drive). It’s too bad you can’t find places like that in the US.

When we arrived in Alicante in the early evening, we checked out the town which was really nice. It had a nice boardwalk/promenade view from walk with bars and restaurants and plenty of people having a good time. The food, however, was not like what we have been having so far. We stopped by a boardwalk restaurant and had some BAD mexican food.

After hanging out at the bars, we headed in for the night. The next day we were going to Ibiza!!