Is ALICANTE Spain's winter paradise?
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- Winter in Alicante? Worth it? Yoly and I head to the cradle of Spanish sun and sand tourism to find out! Venga, let’s go!
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Hola, Spain lovers! We're James and Yoly. James is a New Zealander, and Yoly is from Spain. And we both live in Madrid. This channel is all about giving you a local insight into life in Spain, and helping you experience this country like a local when you come to visit (or live!). If that sounds like your kind of thing, bienvenido!
⏩ CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:46 The road to Altea
03:36 Exploring Altea
06:18 Our paella lunch
09:28 Benidorm, baby!
13:10 Sierra Gelada National Park
14:57 Bodegas Enrique Mendoza
17:17 Guadelest
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Hello Spain lovers! Hope you like the vid. Anyone else got a favourite winter retreat in Spain? Let us know below! 🌞👇🏽
your channel is the best platform ever about Spain. I am huge fan of you from Dubai.
Sagunto is great, as it's divide into two parts. You have the Port de Sagunt with it's sandy beaches, nightlife, Restraunts and so on. Then you have the more laid back old town which nestles below the awesome castle. It was 16' yesterday :-)
Congratulations, great video, as always. Next time do not miss Calp, and its "Avenida del Marisco" where you are invited to beer sangria and small tapas while you choose where to sit (or not).
Just one tip: rice and citric were introduced in the XVIII century because of the agricultural revolution that increased a lot the productivity of basics as wheat.
I would love to watch some similar video about Valencia, with L' Albufera, El PALMAR and all those restaurants at the island, and a long walk from their south beaches, adding it to Monforte gardens, and arts an science cty and la lonja space. Tourism office in Valencia should sponsor you.
Next time around, visit Jijona with its Christmas market and - of course - Turrón de Jijona. Don't expect a touristy town, because it is not. 25 minutes from San Juan/Campello with its 9km stretch of sandy beach, 25 minutes from Alicante and its Castillo de Santa Bárbara rising above the city. Happy to show you around :-)
I wish my retreat could be anywhere in Spain! 😂 🇪🇸
Ok the Spanish tourism board needs to start sponsoring you guys cos I've traveled around Spain and never been interested in Alicante, until this video lol I'm on Airbnb as we speak!
Benidorm flats + a car rental is the cheapest option, and then visit each day one of the surrounding cities and villages, Denia Xabia Calp, Altea, Alfas del Pi, Vila Joiosa, Moraira, Alacant, Jalón and many more, you will not see it all in one holiday.
Beautiful video and brilliant editing. Thank you 🙏🏽
James, your passion for the history of your adopted country is palpable and inspiring. The Spanish Tourism Board should issue a commemorative coin with your likeness on it. Love your vlog. By the way, a well-deserved 'enhorabuena' to you and Yoly for the birth of beautiful baby Lucia! You two must be so happy. Many blessings to your wonderful Kiwi-Spanish family.
So happy to see you back, and Lucia is so cute! It's true having a baby in tow is a real challenge, and it's amazing how you don't miss a step showing us how professional you are, and we still feel like family. Keep doing what you do!
Doing our best!!
One of your best videos! Watching you guys cope with travelling as a family instead of a couple actually boosts your appeal and grounds your experiences in a stronger sense of reality.
Thank you!
Hi James, I can attest that the Costa de Sol is night and day difference with weather. Madrid winters can be really frustrating and bipolar. One year ago we were still scraping ice off the streets and cleaning up broken branches everywhere from Filomena. Here in Málaga, I hardly wear a big jacket or scarf anymore, I go hiking 2-3 times a week, and I fall in love more and more with this part of Andalucía each and every day. It’s an adjustment moving from Madrid to here at first, but it’s easily one of the best places to live in Spain, if not the world. Hope you enjoy your stay down in this part of Spain, saludos.
Have to get down there for a video soon!
Incluso puedes esquiar en Sierra Nevada.
@@JAPotis péro nieve significa frio no me gusta!
@Carlos Muñoz tuvo frio en Sevilla en febrero con lluvia helada
Where are the beat places to hike in Malaga? We visited and fell in love with the city (explored as much as we could, walking 10-20 km / day) and region pre-pandemic. We are counting down to our next trip and hope to expand into more hiking. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have.
Cheers from 🇨🇦!
I love Yoli, Yoli for president! She’s always so smiley and I’m sure it’s not just for the cameras.
Love your video, just relax James, love your little babba.
7 years ago we bought a small bungalow in the north outskirts of Alicante City (cabo de Huertas) and was probably one of the best decisions in our life. Of course we vacation there all summers, but certainly we enjoy going there any other season during the whole year. Just 4 hours by car (only 2,5 hours by train, with public transport granted from door to door), makes quite easy to travel there from Madrid any weekend. Visiting Alicante during winter, autumn or spring time is much more relaxing then in summer, good weather is almost granted (not always, last time we travelled there last November we had “levante” windy conditions, a kind of strong wind that comes from the sea side with high degree of humidity resulting very unpleasant, but is not very frequent fortunately). We have enjoyed swimming in “calas” close to Alicante in November or March, and used sun tun creams in December. Places like Altea, Benidorm, Guadalest, Calpe or Alicante city, so crowded in summer time, are delicious to be walked at off peak seasons, and of course no mention to how easy is to find a good place to enjoy fantastic “gourmet experiences” in all kind of restaurants which result totally inaccesible in summer (fully booked). Alicante coast is a very nice place to live, and I hope to retire there and switch my leisure plans: to live in Alicante and travel to Madrid on weekends for living its stunning cultural and social life…. but just the weekends..!!!
Hola Manuel, I live in Cabo Huertas all year. (Cerca de la Calita) I totally agree with you that “El Cabo” is an absolute paradise as is much of the surrounding area. Indeed we are blessed both you and me.
Thanks guys for bringing us along!
Lovely video. Great to see you all enjoying traveling together as a family.
The museum looks interesting. That ocean view had to be magnificent. Love how sunny it is in January. I love sitting in the sun in winter.
Great video. Bringing the family stuff in and making it personal, really enhances the experience.
loved this video, you both look so happy and relaxed...thanks for sharing.
This is so lovely. And Lucia is so adorable!!! Thanks for a great video 🥰
Hi James, I love your style in speaking Spanish, clear and elegant
Great video! I'm so happy to see you out and about again. I miss not seeing your videos on a more routine basis like you used to have pre pandemic.
Hi guys, I'm going to Altea in April. You gave me some interesting tips.
Can't wait to come.
Love your channel!
Hi guys! Thank you so much for your great videos! It is always a pleasure to watch you on CZcams. We are learning so much! Please keep filming, I for sure will keep watching😊
Muchas Gracias
We really enjoy watching your videos and love the perspective you share, ever more so with managing as a family. Traveling with a child is no small challenge.
Seeing your January scenes as it is snowing and - 5 (balmy compared to the -20 we had for most of January) here in 🇨🇦 is a sight for sore eyes. Thank you & Cheers!
Thanks James and Yoly what an excellent, I formative vid, you are a delightful family providing a great service giving us much to ponder✌🏼🥰🥂
I've only started watching your videos to get an idea of what it would be like to move to Spain. I absolutely love the informative videos and the little trips. It's keeping my dream alive to move there and have a better quality of life. Thank you both for the videos.
Great video - we love the Southern Costa Blanca area, with its long coastal walks, especially outside July/ August and we visit our apartment there as often as Brexit regulations and COVID allow. Alicante city is beautiful, and we love the natural parks and salt lakes south of Alicante - especially to see the flamingoes.
We visited Altea and it was beautiful. I still remember the smell of jasmine.
We stayed in Alicante Town for 4 nights in November and loved there for a winter break. Cathy and Kevs x
What a wonderful video!!, Alicante is my paradise for winter, summer, spring (amazing with all the almond trees in flower) and autumn as well!
Me encantan sus vídeos, me transmiten mucha felicidad auténtica y relajación. Me encanta ver la pasión que tiene James por España, ¡igual que yo! Es muy ameno ver estos vídeos. Un forte abrazo!
Your baby is adorable 🥰 Great video, thank you 🙏🏻
Enjoyed this video so much! Looking forward to more like this.
Gorgeous scenery and interesting stories of the local history! Baby Lucia is gorgeous too!
Wow the views from the top of those mountains are ridiculously beautiful. Stunning views thanks for sharing!
We are so happy that you keep doing the videos even if it is harder with a baby. And I am looking forward to sharing show you Mallorca some day.
Hi James! I love the videos you and Yoly are making, particularly the ones when you travel round Spain (Cuenca, Galicia, Caceres etc). As a Malagueno in the UK (Hence the lack of enye on my keyboard) it's great to see Spain again ....even Benidorm. I'm hoping to go back to Malaga to see my family in March - I can't wait! Thanks for bringing Spain a little bit closer when it has seemed so far recently. Also, i think Sierra Gelada is a Natural Park, not a National Park - it doesn't quite have that status of protection just yet. Looking forward to the next video! Perhaps around the Malaga region :)
We are coming to Spain in about 2 months! Your videos are very inspiring and so much fun 2 watch. Your family is beautiful and don't worry it gets much easier. I can't wait 2 get 2 Spain and see where my ancestors came from some 500 yrs ago!. Keep up the great work!!
Love this video and the little insights into travelling with a child! I have not been to Spain before and would love to in the future and now, Alicante is one of the places I will be sure to check out! It's beautiful
Thoroughly enjoyed that and so happy you guys got away for a bit of adventure.
This is so great. It is what travel really is like. Sounds glamorous, and in fact is a lot of work. It takes discipline to do it right, but it is worth the effort.
How lovely to see you both with your beautiful child, what a lovely family.
Really enjoyed this video, thank you 💖
Lovely video and happy to wake up to the notification. I went right to it. Great job. Thank you.
Thank you Amelia!
Just LOVE these videos - great work guys!
James, Yoli and Lucia thanks for another great video. I was fortunate to have recently spent 5 weeks in Benidorm and over the years have made trips to Bodega Enrique Mendoza, Guadalest and the Waterfalls at Algar. My favourite pass time is to lose myself in the meandering streets of Old Town Benidorm, eating Tapas and practicing my limited Spanish on unsuspecting locals. Balcony del Mediteraneo at sunset is breathtaking. I've only been home 2 weeks and pining to go back. 7 weeks and counting...
Just loved this video and really great to see Lucia, what a cutie pie! Take care guys!
Great video. It made a real change to see you in a different part of Spain particularly in the South. Thank you
Hi James, Yoli y Lucia many thanks for your videos. I'm 76 and have been going to Spain for 40 years and still interested to see more. Keep up the good work and remember - you will soon get beyond changing nappies!!
Thanks Whanau, for a fun, interesting, entertaining and informative video all the way from Aotearoa (NZ). Stay safe and Kia Kaha
Lovely change of scenery and excellent advice James…embrace the life you want to live. That life for me means more time in Spain. Thanks for the inspiration!
Cheers Andrea!
Awesome video as usual!! I can't wait to go back to Spain. Altea is so beautiful as is the whole area of Alicante.
Brava família! Lindo vídeo!
Really liked Alicante when we were there. Glad you enjoyed the trip.
Great to get some history about the place and to see it again with some non touristy spots
Glad you enjoyed it Robert!
Thanks for this look at more than just the touristy side of the area!
Hi James and Yoly, thanks a lot for the beautiful video! South of Spain is totally great in winter! I spent few days in Malaga this winter and it was such a relief from the gloomy Prague's winter!
Glad you managed to get a little bit of southern Spanish winter sun Volodymyr!
We spent a week in Alicante last summer and I loved it! My son lives in Madrid, so after the week at beach we went to Barcelona for a few days and then to Madrid. Enjoyed it so much. I could live in Alicante permanently!
Excellent video. That area is now on our list to visit when we return.
Absolutely great video, loved the humour!!!
I enjoy your videos so much keep the good work, you guys are great 👍
Thanks I really enjoyed this ❤
Good to see your videos are back on form, James!
Cheers mate!
The daytime weather on the Costa Blanca is perfect in winter!
My goodness...thank you for sharing the views.
hi guys! I'm happy to see how you enjoyed visiting Altea. I spent 5 years of my life living and studying there. ❤
I swear , Alicante is indeed a paradise. I was there few days ago.
I will be visiting a friend in Alicante in the spring, so this is much appreciated!
Hey James and Yoly, glad you guys had a great time in Alicante! Lucia looks like she is having lots of fun in the January sun. Loved the winery too, and the 5, no 7 wines. Come see us in Valencia🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷Saludos
Absolutely adore your videos, I’ve been a massive follower of your channel & each video you upload is both informative & beautiful, please keep up the great work your doing & please keep growing your channel & keep the videos coming think & fast, look after yourself & your growing family, once more 10/10⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The whole video seems really relaxing! Enjoy guys 😎
Alicante es la tierra que me vio nacer, no puedo opinar, no sería objetiva. Felices vacaciones y disfrutar de esa preciosa bebita.❤️🙋🏻
Great video James, Yoly, and Lucia. The Valencia region is one I'm not familiar with, but I'm planning to visit as one of my stops when I go to Spain this summer with my husband and son. Your place on the beach in Altea was so beautiful and relaxing. I am more of a summer person, but I'm sure the scene is not so peaceful in summer! And, I especially loved your comment at the end, James, about how people might live a little differently than they did before. Instead of going back to "normal", living parts of your life as you've always dreamed of living it!
Very good video. I have watched all of your videos and this may be the best.
Hi James & Yoly (and of course Camera girl Lucia), it was great to see you filming my home town Altea. We have lived here for four years and love the place. Benidorm is fascinating although very much a marmite or should I say Vegimite, as you either love it or loathe it, Benidorm es lo que hay! Keep up the great video's, we enjoy them so much and they give us plenty of ideas for exploring our new country.
Thank you for doing a video about my favourite part of Spain! And I must admit, Benidorm was better than expected haha.
Alicante on my bucket list for the future. These areas are a vacationers paradise. What a break from reality.
Greetings from little Denmark in the north :) I was in Benidorm in 1977 and it was fantastic. We could not use the beach as there were some bad stuff in the ocean . but the pool was nice and the city always alive :)
Thank you so much for all your fantastic videos - I really enjoy them. My prefered vacation has always been Spain - I love the language, the weather and the people :) and tapas/Cava
Altea is beautiful and I love it!
Great video. I love your enthusiasm.
Amazing video really enjoyed it!
I spontaneously went to Alicante in May 2019 without knowing anything about that part of Spain and spent a wonderful 10 days and fell in love with that region, I was in a hotel 20 minutes from Alicante city center, and on that trip, I visited Altea, Benidorm, Villajoyosa, Elche, Novelda and Murcia. I want to visit this beautiful part of Spain again, I hope soon
Had a golden sunrise swim at Dénia in August a few years ago. The water was like glass, very warm and it's something I'll never forget.
Wow, Guadelest looks lovely. And the winery!
Go 50km south into Orihuela Costa and its also a hot semi-arid climate... but a little warmer than Alicante City. Tomorrow it will be 23c- January 31st. Alicante City is lovely. I drive up there once a forthnight on a Sunday for a coffee and a wander around town.
This is lovely. My first choice would have been Malaga. I can't deal with that heat in summer but it would be great to see in winter. Alicante looks great too. I'd really love to experience that too. Thanks for this vlog James.
Yes, Malaga is on the cards!
Alicante Castle is one of the nicest I've seen in Europe, it's simply stunning
My first choice is Lanzarote. 21 to 22 degrees in Febuary. No mass tourism and highrise and insane landscapes.
I have been to both, they're very similar looking cities actually, but Alicante is about half the size and my favourite. I had one of my favourite ever trips to Alicante, and the food is just fantastic.
@@aftp6646 There are too many buildings in Canarias sadly. They over everywhere they could. Sadly no regulations existed in the 70s/80s for that.
My 2nd visit to this video. Loving the ocean and the views.
Altea is a magical spot... Every summer I spend at least one day in this town... Altea la vella is just fascinating
We were there last summer on our boat. Stayed at the marina and really loved it there. Amazing that you can see Benidorm from the top of the old town! Two more different places you could not find in Spain.
Loving your videos - keep going guys.
I love your positiveness to live. Take care @all!
Happy to watch another upload :)
Great video of my neck of the woods! I moved to Calpe a year ago and I love this region! I loved how you added in the real life of juggling a baby and traveling.
Glad you liked those additions!
love the video blog, well done :)
I hear you. We’ve travelled with our three kids since they were babies and just packed them up and moved from Australia to Spain - two teenagers and an eight year old. Certainly makes for resilient adults. We hope!
Great video guys!
We moved to Isla Canela 4 years ago and it is absolutely wonderful year round. The beach, Guadiana River and Portugal ten minutes away plus tennis , golf, kite boarding and paddle everywhere.
que lindo, Felicidades ¡! its made me happy to see you have the baby.
Amazing video !! Thank you guys ;-)
Very inspiring video, I too plan on exploring more of Spain after the pandemic finally eases, life is short
Además va verdad, hay que disfrutar si podéis. No sabemos el tiempo que nos queda. 🙋🏻
Nice to see gorgeous coast. 😍
Hola! Beautiful video , today we have freezing weather in Florida USA 😱 and we are thinking of moving to Alicante , so we really enjoyed your video. We are getting ready to apply for a non lucrative visa because we visited Alicante and we fell in love with the old town 🥰 thank you again for a great video 👏👏
Thanks for the great content! We’re in Alicante now, and will be catching a sunset from the castle, this evening. We always like checking your channel for things to do. You always bring the goods! Much love to you and family. We’ll be flying out of Madrid on the 22nd, so we’ll be looking for spots in your hometown on the 20th! Cheers! Can’t wait to visit some tapas places and drink some wines you recommended in your vids. Double Cheers and Ciao
Definitely one of your best videos! You 2 (2.5?) give off great energy! all the best!
Stayed in benidorm 4 years ago, I found in benidorm you can experience complete opposites,either quiet times or mental times. visited Altea for a day and loved it. Cant wait to return
Hello Steven! My husband and I stayed in Benidorm 5 years ago and took a day trip to Altea for the day. We even met some young women that lived in the same city as us in North Carolina! Small world. We had a wonderful time. Trying to get back to Spain. Had to cancel when Covid hit, but we have reservations for May. Wish us luck. 😊
I am waiting to get out to look at some apartments for a holiday home in alicante, will wait though until everything settles down. Good luck to you..
JAMES! This one even I know, Arroz Caldoso! I’ve made it already! Since I am not in Spain, and where I live, I asked for paella once in a “Spanish” restaurant 🤢😐 never more! I watch Spain in a fork, and I make it myself at home! For paella I follow a family recipe! 🥘