This past Sunday I went with Dolo and some of her friends to the faro de Albir (Albir lighthouse) in a town just about 30 miles to the north of Alicante called Albir. The lighthouse is situated on top of a mountain/cliff (whatever you want to call it) that's right on the Mediterranean; the water was so amazingly blue that day, words cannot even describe it and these pictures, unfortunately, don't do it justice, but they're good enough. The lighthouse and the trails are part of, what we would call a state park, el Parque de la Sierra Gelada (Sierra Gelada Park) because it's named after the mountain range it's located on.
It wasn't very strenuous (thank goodness, because I am definitely not a mountain climber); there was a paved path to get to the main attraction, the lighthouse. However, we also saw some old ochre (or ocher) mines alongside the mountain and we had to walk down the mountain, but there was a path (although not paved) so it was still pretty easy to get to them. We all packed lunches and ate them on the bank where the mountain met the Mediterranean. The mountain offered amazing views of the Mediterranean, of Albir and two another cities called L'Alfàs del Pi and Altea and other mountain ranges in the background.
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| Ochre |
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| The remains of the mine |
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| This is where we ate lunch! |
After we left the park we went to either Albir or L'Alfàs del Pi to a heladería (ice cream parlor) because after walking around all day in the sun we were a bit tired and hot. Then we returned to Alicante and Dolo and I just sat around for the rest of the evening/night because we were so tired.
This weekend Dolo is going to Madrid for a girl's weekend with some of her friends from Pinoso so I'll be alone this weekend, but I plan on hitting the books hard because it's finally starting to sink in that I have two 10 page papers, a 5 page paper due and an analysis of a 20th century work of art at the end of the semester; and seeing as we're less than a month from the halfway period of our semester, I figured I better get started on them sooner rather than later.
