Our Spanish Apartment
Trip Start
Aug 12, 2004
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Trip End
Dec 23, 2004
Alicante, Spain
Thursday, October 21, 2004
When we first got there we thought that everything was shut down, most of the buildings in our area looked as if they were closed for the season. Suprise! Suprise! All of the places turned out to be bars, and there were so many of them. Within a 5 block radius around our place there was about 25-30 different bars: in basements and above other places, it was a never-ending row of tiny bars. People were crowded around eachother, so many that some hungout in the alleys around the bars. That night we realized just how much spanish peopled partied, no matter how old they are. We went out and then after we went to bed, we randomly woke up around 6am and everyone was still partying. The spanish schedule is something like this: get up and work until 1pm, then nap until 3, finish work early evening, chill out and grab some tapas (fingerfood appetizers) around 7pm (visit with friends for a few hours), dinner at 11 or so, bars and clubs the rest of the night into the morning, and finally before going home, a quick stop at KFC (yep, even in Spain).
Alicante is a college town, with students coming from all over. We met people from Norway, France, Italy, Russia, and so on.
