As I sit here on Alicante’s fine esplanade, struggling to keep my eyes open, I realise that this looks like being the last blog post. Although I don’t fly home for two more days this first trip since the…the thing happened has taken a bit out of me and I only have energy left for…

Alicante then. An extremely pleasant place to spend a few days, a mixture of beach holiday, old town wandering, castles, cervecarias, museums and whatnot. It doesn’t have quite the range of sights as a Valencia or a Málaga maybe, but you’ll always find enough places to go to keep you occupied. And as we’ll see,…

Most would call it “a week of sun, sea and sangria on the Costa Blanca”. Me? I call it “unfinished business with the Spanish-speaking world”. The knee injury from my last post had its complications, and it needed a second operation back home. Now I’m into a second bout of recovery and physio, and although…