Class Trip to the Coast

View from hotel balcony

balconies

At 2:30 pm on Thursday afternoon, my oceanography class met to depart towards Alicante, Spain. Alicante is a predominantly fishing town located along the Mediterranean Sea. This Province is among one of the fastest-growing cities in Spain. Another class went the weekend before I went and said they had a blast, so I was pretty excited about this trip. The only non-exciting part was the long 6 hour bumpy bus ride. Bus drivers are required to stop every 2 and a half hours by law at a rest stop and wait for 45 minutes before they can get back on the road and drive. The rest stop we took a break at was in the middle of nowhere nor were there any people inside except for us.  Around 8:30pm we finally arrived to La Mata, Alicante and checked into our hotel called Cabo Cervera. The hotel was pretty nice. Each room had a sitting area separate from the beds along with a big balcony overlooking the clear pool and quiet ocean. In my opinion the bathrooms were the best part aside from the balconies because it was brand new, had a lot of light and big showers. The weird thing about the bathrooms was that they only had half a door. This must be a European design because I have never seen something like this. The water could easily escape and form a puddle on the floor. The class had only one rule to follow: no balconing. This is an order from the U.S. Embassy that our teacher reinstated. Apparently students in the past have died from climbing between balconies. We didn’t do much when we got to the hotel. We had a buffet style dinner at the hotel and then sat outside by the pool until it got too cold. Then it was time to rest up for the next few busy days ahead of us.