Alicante, Plaza de la Santisima Faz
March 5, Friday. Lunch in the plaza near our hotel.
Plaza de la Santisima Faz
Lunch the day we arived. Our hotel is the green building just down the alley.
Plaza de la Santisima Faz
Lunch the day we arrived. Brynna met us at the airport and helped us to understand the cab driver and passersby as we tried to find our hotel.
Alley
Leaving the plaza near our hotel. Lunch was behind the camera and to the left (Brynna's right).
Alley
Leaving the plaza where we had lunch. I wore this warm fuzzy a lot during our visit -- it was pretty chilly most days. I managed to leave it in the hotel the day we left Spain.
Blue Stairs
A typical alley in Alicante -- there are a few hills and some are steep.
Waiting
Puppy on the street.
Narrow Street
This is in the older part of town, near our hotel. Narrow streets are typical. The church on the right is being renovated.
Church Door
Stone carivng around the door to the church that was being renovated.
Church Steeple
City Worker
City workers wear green uniforms.
Apartment Buildings
Alley
Downhill
Alicante Street
Near the Ayuntamiento.
Plaza
Our hotel is next to the white car in the background.
Graffiti
Brynna promised to find out what this graffiti means -- we saw it on a number of buildings (often churches), but alas, she did not. This was beside the door of a building across the street from our hotel.
Stone Lintel
A building across the street from our hotel.
Eposed Interior Wall
Interesting construction -- apparently any old junk may be mortared together for walls between buildings.
Idaly, Katya, Barbara, Brynna
Idaly is Brynna's Spanish mom, and Katya is another exchange student (from Germany) staying with the same family.
Hotel Room
Our room in the former convent.
Mirror Frame Detail
In our room in the former convent.
Ghost Brynna
City View
The Mediterranean Sea is visible by Brynna's left shoulder.
Hotel Door
The former convent we stayed in.
El Castillo
The castle, seen from the beach.
Alicante Regatta
Sailboats racing in the bay, Alicante's beach in the foreground.
Alicante Beach
Sailboats racing in the background.
Alicante Beach
Brynna's family lives on the peninsula beyond the sailboats.
Looking Down from El Castillo
Sailboats racing in the bay, seagull in flight -- what a view!
North from El Castillo
Looking north. Brynna's family lives on the peninsula on the right.
Northwest from El Castillo
Marina
From the castle, looking south (and a little east -- sort of south by east).
West from El Castillo
My guess is that the wires came somewhat after the Moors were driven out of the castle.
South from El Castillo
Southwest from El Castillo
Church
Hidden Courtyard
Seen from the castle.
Church
Buttresses holding up the walls of the apse.
El Castillo
Looking west from one part of the castle to another. The cannons are atop the part behind the antenae.
Castle Walkway
Cactus
In one of the castle courtyards.
Plaza de la Santisima Faz
Seen from the castle.
Plaza
A plaza near our hotel, seen from the castle.
Rooftop Patios
Cannon Atop El Castillo
Looking North
Deeper into the hidden Courtyard
Sadly, I had changed the settings of the camera without noticing. (The little knob turns easily when pulling it out of its bag.) Ao a bunch of photos from the very top of the castle are way overexposed. Playing with iPhoto sliders helps, but but there is no detail to work with in the very bright areas.
Ayuntamiento
From the castle. Our lunch the first day was in the plaza with the palm trees at the lower right corner of the photo.
Alicante Plaza
From the castle.
Rooftop Patios
From the castle.
Castillo de San Fernando
Seen from El Castillo (de Santa Barbara) looking west.
Plaza de Toros
From El Castillo
Northwest from El Castillo
Southwest from El Castillo
Plaza de Toros
The bullfighting plaza in Alicante, seen from the castle.
Northwest from El Castillo
Plaza de Toros
Church
From the castle. (Non-flying) buttresses holdling up the walls of the apse.
West Wall, El Castillo
Alicante Alley and Plaza
From the west wall of the castle, looking down the alley past our hotel to the plaza where we had lunch our first day. The hotel is just behind the corner of the building with the blue dome.
Alley, Plaza
Looking down the alley past our hotel, from the castle's west wall.
Restaurant at the Castle
Alicante Street, Plaza
A few days later there were some guys playing soccer in the plaza.
Old Alicante Street
Looking west from our hotel. Just visible to the left of the steeple is a bit of the castle west wall.
West Wall of the Castle
Zoomed from the street in front of our hotel.
El Castillo
Seen from a street in Old Alicante.
Apartments in Old Alicante
Hotel Les Monges
Our hotel in Alicante.
Old Alicante
The castle's west wall behind.
Walk Detail
Walkway tiles in the esplanade of a downtown street.
Mercado
Where to go for fresh veggies, fresh meat, etc.
Sculpture: Alicante Village
Resting
In Alicante's Ayuntamiento Plaza.
Ayuntamiento
Cervantes
Ayuntamiento wall.
Ayuntamiento
Trying to capture the castle (in the blackness of the upper right). It was lit, and so we could see it, but there was a function at the Ayuntamiento and the Ayuntamiento lights were too bright for the camera to pick out the dimmer castle.
City Workers
Street sweepers!
Ayuntamiento
Pat, Brynna, Idaly
On Idaly's patio.
Dan
Dan & Manuela
Katya, Pat, Brynna
Top of the Castle
Castle of Santa Barbara
Castle
With the west wall below.
Late Night?
Brynna, Pat, Sea Gull
Katya and Cannon
On the West Wall
On the West Wall
On the West Wall
Restaurant Courtyard
Blossoms
Less Zoom
More Zoom
Calle San Antonio
Casa de Fran
Old Alicante
Sand Castle
This guy builds sand castles on the beach for tips.
Face
The hill below the castle is said to look like a face.
Face
Pre-Calculus
Deriving derivatives. Exact same pose as when she was 4.
Sand Castle