Camping Equipment Essentials

Written by Robin Shortt


The following is a list of equipment that you likely want to take on a camping excursion.

Tent

Spare tent stakes

Sleeping Bags

Ground pad or air mattress

Stove and fuel

Lantern and fuel

Flashlight and spare bulb and batteries

Cookset

Dutch oven or Reflector oven

If taking a reflector oven- cake pans,

pie plates, muffin tins

Griddle or frying pans

Toaster

Pot holder

Can opener

Cooking utensils- spatula, large spoon, fork

Mixing bowls

Dishpan

Dish cloth and towels, Dish Soap

Plates, cups, knives , forks, spoons

Repair kit

Rope



Alicante Spain - How to explore it in one day

Written by Robert Carlton


Imagine some of you will come over and spend these summer holidays aroundrepparttar Costa Blanca in places like Benidorm, Torrevieja, Denia or Calpe. After two weeks of sunbathing and party at night, you finally get your act together and do a one day visit to Alicante – just to be able to tellrepparttar 133891 loved once at home that you have seen some culture and arts as well.

Come and join me for a foot walk around Alicante

Before we start a quick overview. Alicante, with about 310.000 habitants lies about 6 hours down from Barcelona alongrepparttar 133892 Mediterranean coast of Spain. Withinrepparttar 133893 summer months about 6 million tourists visitrepparttar 133894 Costa Blanca area. Depending on different sources, about 4.5 Mio come fromrepparttar 133895 U.K. alone. Cities like Benidorm (population 50.000) host up to 4 Mio visitors every year. Alicante isrepparttar 133896 second largest city inrepparttar 133897 province of Valencia.

The city is best explored by foot starting atrepparttar 133898 harbour area, where many parking areas are available. So we leave our car next torepparttar 133899 Melia Hotel right onrepparttar 133900 harbour entrance. (A quick tip atrepparttar 133901 beginning, if you arrive at Alicante Airport you can get a very good Alicante map right atrepparttar 133902 tourist information centre atrepparttar 133903 arrival hall.)

Just behindrepparttar 133904 Melia Hotel atrepparttar 133905 foot ofrepparttar 133906 Santa Barbara Castle you findrepparttar 133907 beach of Postiguet, where atrepparttar 133908 end of our little walk through Alicante, we will have our sunbath. But let’s go on and get some culture and historical buildings to see.

Directly in front ofrepparttar 133909 Melia Hotel we enter a little road which brings us torepparttar 133910 Plaza del Ajuntamento, which means Plaza ofrepparttar 133911 City Hall. Alicante’s city hall was originally built in 1688 byrepparttar 133912 French, later heavily damaged and rebuilt inrepparttar 133913 18th century. Guided by two 35 metre. tall towers,repparttar 133914 city halls stairs measuresrepparttar 133915 “Cero-Point” concerning sea level. All measurements of height in Spain – refer to this “cero-point” as base for their calculations. Withinrepparttar 133916 city hall you can visitrepparttar 133917 blue salon with its wonderful mirror gallery (Monday to Saturdays). Just passingrepparttar 133918 city hall atrepparttar 133919 right you will findrepparttar 133920 Plaza de Santissima Faz, a lovely little area surrounded by palm trees.

The nativity scene museum of Alicante

A little bit further, particularly if you are with children, you should visitrepparttar 133921 nativity scene museum at San Augustin Street. I have to admit it is a rather strange feeling to watch Christmas crips aroundrepparttar 133922 summer time, but it’s worth it. The museum contains such a variety of hundreds of different scenes and figures from all overrepparttar 133923 world, that it will impress every visitor. As entrance is free, just have a look – you will not regret it.

Just aroundrepparttar 133924 corner fromrepparttar 133925 nativity museum, you will findrepparttar 133926 concathedral of San Nicolas de Bari. Withrepparttar 133927 neighbour city of Orihuela beingrepparttar 133928 residence ofrepparttar 133929 bishop ofrepparttar 133930 province, Alicante got a “sub-cathedral” granted by Pope John XXIII in 1959. With an impressive 45 metre high blue domerepparttar 133931 concathedralrepparttar 133932 building is one ofrepparttar 133933 landmarks of Alicante. At one ofrepparttar 133934 two entrances you will find a sculpture ofrepparttar 133935 holy Nicolas done in black marble.

Just when you walk out ofrepparttar 133936 old city centre of Alicante and passrepparttar 133937 rather modern street of Rambla de Mendez Nunez, you should enterrepparttar 133938 Avenida Del Teatro. There you will find Alicante’s huge theatre with massive roman style columns guidingrepparttar 133939 entrance. Justrepparttar 133940 right place for a pleasant evening entertainment, byrepparttar 133941 way. Walking down inrepparttar 133942 harbour direction, you will findrepparttar 133943 Plaza Nueva Alicante. Here you will find a little aquarium within lovely plaza. The modern display sits within palm trees and an alley. Justrepparttar 133944 right place to have a break in one ofrepparttar 133945 bars around, enjoyingrepparttar 133946 sun.

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