Alicante-Spain.com Newsletter No.4 - 24. March 2004

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Dear Alicante and Costa Blanca Fan,

close to holiday time, so you might actually like to hear some news and pictures from the Costa blanca and Alicante.

Thanks to all of you for the great response to our last newsletter and the new Alicante Forum. It certainly showed that there is a need for a dicussion on Costa Blanca topics.

This issue of our newsletter features news from latest airline routes to Alicante, thanks to Helen Kyle and Wim Kuyps for news on flights from Scotland and Belgium respectively.

In addition our main article this months is about our favourite Alicante restaurant. The place where my wife and I tend to go. We really hope you like the pictures.

Ah, and not to forget - do you know how a palm tree is cleaned up? You do not know that palm trees need to be cleaned every once in a while, well I thought you might like our little off-topic article about palm trees.

So have fun with this newsletter and join our forum with your comments, questions and hints.

Table of contents:

• New on Flights to Alicante from Edingburgh, Glasgow, Brussels Oostende, Copenhagen and Teesside
• Article of the month: Our favourite Alicante Restaurant
• Just a little bit off-topic: How to clean a Palm Tree?
• Forum on Alicante, Costa Blanca and Spain

News on Flights to Alicante

Some important airline announcements this months:

Teesside to Alicante Direct Flights
Bmibaby starts new direct flights to Alicante on his summer schedule. Beginning 30-Apr-04 to 29-Oct-04 the company flies Monday, Wednesday and Friday to Alicante from Teesside.

AerLingus to Alicante from Cork
The irish airline AerLingus starts a new direct flight service from 31st March 2004. The flights will connect Cork to Alicante twice a week, flying wednesday and friday.

The airline Maersk Air offers new direct flights from Copenhagen to Alicante. The four times a week service will be starting 31st March.

Air-Scotland and flyglobespan fly from Edingburgh and Glasgow to Alicante. We added our flights section accordingly.

Jetonly and Thomascook fly direct from Alicante to Brussels, Liege and Ostend Bruges. With additional flights from thomascook to Rijsel, the connections from Belgium to Alicante have been expanded widely.

Based on these news, we updated our Alicante flights section here

Our favourite Alicante Restaurant

Being asked over the past several months on good restaurants in Alicante, I finally found time to go out for dinner with the camera and write a little about our favourite Alicante restaurant.

No, it is not the only good Alicante restaurant, nor did we test many different once, but it is our favourite. The CASA Julio Restaurant at the beach of San Juan, north of Alicante is the place we go when we look for everything from a traditional paella or rice to not so typical steaks.

See the great dishes on this article about Alicante Restaurants

How to clean a Palm Tree?

By the time a traveller visits the Costa Blanca, you normally see lots of beautiful palm trees around. You might not know, but these trees do not grow as clean as they might look to you. They need a lot of hard work, cutting and cleaning. So when a few weeks ago a gardener started for the anual cleaning job of our only palm tree, I took some shots and learned a little bit about the way palm trees are cleaned.

This article tries to share a little bit about my tiny knowledge of palm tree cleaning and the
huge respect I have for the work of these gardeners. The Alicante Palm Trees article.

Forum on Alicante, Costa Blanca and Spain

Starting our forum with the last newsletter, we where overwhelmed by the great reaction.

Please use it to ask questions about Alicante, Benidorm or other parts of the Costa Blanca. You do not need to register or anything else, just post you questions, comments and requests.

Find the Alicante Spain Forum here

Hope you enjoyed our quick newsletter,

Best Regards and Muchos Saludos from San Juan, Alicante

Hubert

PS: Currently, 20:38 h, 24.Mar.2004, 11°C dark :)

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