Saturday was a beautiful day and we took the bus into the centre of Alicante. It is a beautiful city and has lots of different and unique areas of the city.  One of the areas we went to was to the Centro Comercial Alicante PLAZA MAR 2. It is a fairly large mall with numerous stores which we have never seen before. We went into a store called “Alcampo” it is similar to a Wal-Mart. We bought some basics to replace the missing items from our lost luggage.  We also bought some basic groceries and toured the whole store. It is very interesting to see how things are different in the spanish culture. The food and products are similar in some cases and  entirely different in other cases. The cost of food is somewhat cheaper here than in Canada, but depends on the products.

The fruit and vegetables are nice and fresh. The cost is fairly inexpensive compared to Canada. A bunch of Bananas cost 1 euro.  Oranges here are very plentiful and inexpensive. You can get 3 kilos of oranges for about 1 euro. The oranges are very fresh normally picked within a few days. We paid .79 euro cents for a red pepper, I know that sounds high ,but check out the pepper and boy was it fresh and tasty.

We went to an open market and walked around. It was quite interesting to see all the different things for sale. They had everything there, from slippers and t-shirts to fresh prawns and lobster. The market looks like an excellent spot to shop once we get better with our Spanish language.   “Adios y que tengas un gran día.”