Round Town: Local News Benidorm, Alfaz, Altea.

The Spanish government recently unveiled a plan to invest 17 billion euros over the next two years to improve Spain’s transportation system and provide much-needed jobs in a country suffering from high unemployment. The vast majority of this huge amount is to be spent on two major projects; the motorway system and the RENFE high speed rail system. It is hoped that Spain will overtake France as the country with more high speed rail lines than any other.

The ‘Isle de Benidorm’ or ‘Peacock Island’ as it is sometimes known seems to be changing.  It shrinks and grows at the mercy of the official or tourist booklets.

Fiesta is a party! To the outsider a fiesta just looks like a reason for a party – but in actual fact there is a reason behind each and every one – and it’s usually religious. Most of us are familiar with Benidorm’s annual fiestas in November and many book their holiday’s especially to coincide, but inland, the village fiestas are every bit as spectacular and each honours a different saint.