A few days ago, I was talking with a friend (not from HIVE, or crypto 😃) and I sent him a link to an apartment for sale, just for a joke... The first thing that he said was: "So, it looks like crypto is going up?" 😂 He knows me well... Whenever there is a trigger that looks promising for a bull run, I'm back to the real estate markets, checking prices and dreaming... 🤣
Well, something similar happened when I took this short "excursion" to Torrevieja, a small city in Spain... It was October 2022, Bitcoin was almost at the exact bottom, and it was really, really hard to imagine it going under 17K (it went to 16K a month later)... In those moments, in my head, it was all about accumulation and preparing for the next bull run, which I did with the resources I had in those moments...
Also, it was time to start dreaming about taking future profits and "spending (imaginary) big money"... 😂 I remember my passed-away grandfather filling out a lottery ticket and while he was doing it, he was already spending prize money... 😂 The same way, I have decided to visit Torrevieja as I have noticed that there are some good real estate offers in the city and I wanted to check out the "terrain"...
Along with my wife, I hit the road to visit this charming small city in Southeastern Spain... It is situated in the same province where I live and the climate is very similar, but it is still over 100km drive to get there... We went early in the morning to have enough time to check as much as possible things in (and around) the town...
As you have already noticed, it is a city on the Mediterranean Sea and it has many small beaches... What is interesting is that the city has over 80.000 residents, but when you are walking around Torrevieja, you would never guess that it is so big... That's why I made a mistake several times while I was writing this post writing "town" instead of "city", as it does look like a small time...
The thing is that it does have almost 90K residents, but many people have their "second home" there and they are not around the whole year... As I was there in October, there weren't as many tourists as usual in the summertime... 60% of the population are Spaniards, and the rest are Russian, British, Ukrainian, Moroccan, etc. In 2004, Torrevieja had the biggest British ex-pats community and most Brits were coming from Yorkshire!
The "secret" of so many residents lies in the fact that the municipality has much urbanization around the old town and a plain territory for growth! Because of that, the city center is relatively preserved its history... Speaking of history, it's not as rich as some other towns that I previously visited... The city isn't older than 200 years as before that, it was just a couple of houses and nothing more... After that, it became a salt-mining and fishing village, and recently, it was completely changed with immigration and a lot of real estate buildings...
When we were walking on the seaside, it was still relatively early and that's why most of the market stands were closed... I suppose that in the middle of the tourist season, these stands are overcrowded!
For someone "outside" this small "roof" looks ridiculous as it doesn't complete its function when it rains, but as Torrevieja has a lot of sunny days, it does work as creates shade for people who take a moment to take a rest... or, enjoy rollerskating in shade as a girl on the photo above...
There is an old(er) church in the city, but this is the new one, that was celebrating 50 years of construction last year... It is situated in a beautiful small square...
Yes, these are photos from October, and yes, those people are bathing in the sea... 😃 What is interesting about Torrevieja is that it doesn't have one big, long beach, but it has many small beaches... The two most popular are Playa del Cura, which is the one that you can see in the photos above and under these lines, and Playa de los Locos which is behind those buildings that you can see in the distance, but I didn't take photos from it...
The city center is right behind the beach, on the left and that's why this beach is the most popular... I can just imagine how it would look in the middle of the summer if it was this crowded in October! 😃
This is the view from the other side at the same beach... As it is situated in a small bay, the water isn't deep, and I suppose it is very pleasant and warm in summer...
This part of the city was probably the weirdest, as I had no idea what it was about with these totems! The first thought that came to my mind was the Splinterlands totems... hahaha... It is called Monumento a las Culturas del Mediterráneo, and different cultures are represented on these pillars... They were created in 1990, representing all cultures that left "traces" in the Mediterranean, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Phoenicians...
After that, we went to the car and continued exploration of Torrevieja's environment outside the city center... As I had a lot more photos about that, I will try to publish another post soon (I hope not in a year or so 😃)...
Thank you for your time,
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