Weekend Breaks
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stivi
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true. but not a surprise IMO, where else in europe do you have all that in just one city: art, delicious food, shopping, mediterranean climate and even a beach, a great football stadium, splendid nightlife...and all for quite reasonable prices (i'm not saying cheap).
Agreed.
That's cos you are a wild northener
(silvia - do you feel invaded?
Quite a bit, but I still keep few secret places where nobody can find me
I was wearing my thick winter coat, my scarf, my globes and she was in her mini skirt and a summer top and blaming me because of her parka
alicante! it doesn't have the football stadium and isn't so painfully up its own backside trying to maintain its trendier than thou image.
its loads cheaper than barcelona, drinks, food, going out, and hotels. it has a nicer beach AND right in the city centre. it's airport has more budget flights arriving at it than those of the national carriers, it's near to the city and once there you can do everywhere easily on foot.
i think it's a perfect weekend destination.
you can read about it here
http://www.alicante-spotlight.com/
(i should add that my glowing description is my own personal one and not spotlight propaganda)
8)We went in August and i was worried it was going to be too hot, but it wasn't. We had lovely warm evenings were we could sit outside restuarants and stroll along the harbour etc. In the day we done the site seeing and spent half a day on the beach.
Splendid
Buckley
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That sounds like a hint to another spotligher to me!
That's sounds like an outing! To Barcelona, I mean, of course.
Agreed. Alicante is lovely (Valencia is rather nice too and within relatively easy distance of Alicante airport for the purposes of cheap flights) - spent quite some time in both places as I lived in Torrevieja for a couple of years(nearby)
Where did you live in Torrevieja? I know it well
By the way (not been for a few years) is the crappy little amusement park in Santa Pola (Pola Park) still there. I went on the very rickety log flume there and managed to split my head open (I exagerate a little but it did bleed a bit)
Yes I know where you mean and my Mum now lives in San Miguel
It's a cliche but it really is a small world. Our place has been sold now cry: 
wish we still had it as the property prices have rocketed recently) but I still go back from time to time. Lovely place though (even if my Urb was totally English and mainly populated by the elderly so a bit like living in Eastbourne but warmer)
psychobabble
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I agree, it's a wonderful place.
Verona is another place that I would go back to like a shot for a weekend break. Or Palma.
For somewhere warm with a quick flight, Costa del Sol might fit the bill - not the most exciting place in the world but very pleasant. (Going there in April myself, for full length holiday though.)
Otherwise, you could do a lot worse than Brighton. Ok, it won't be boiling but it's such a lovely place.