Country: Spain

My lil bro lived in Spain for a while and when he was there he invited me to come hang out. We spent a month chilling in his hometown of Albacete and traveling to some other areas on daytrips. While I was there some of his friends from Bolivia were getting married and somehow I was volunteered to be the photographer. I’ll post the gallery soon; it was a pretty interesting experience.

Alicante — December Respite

by B • January 18, 2014 • 2 comments

Andrew doing some parkour, showing these Spaniards who's boss of street style.

Alicante, Spain – 2007 Years ago I went to visit my brother Andrew in Spain, where he went to teach English and practice drinking. My bro and his clan decided we were going to take a daytrip from our smallish adopted hometown of Albacete in south-central Spain, to Alicante, a beautiful coastal city. Alicante was my favorite city in Spain and this was also one of the best days of the entire trip for me—the weather was beautiful and I won a free refresco pequeño on my McDonald’s drink (Monopoly game was going on and I ate that American trash back then). Putting my feet in the Mediterranean Sea, feeling its waves crash against my flea-bitten limbs while I imagined the centuries of civilization that have passed through the same steps I was walking in…the Santa Bárbara Castle on the…