Author: Elda Hamaker

With it’s Instagram-worthy scenery and top-notch restaurants, Alicante has long been a destination hotspot for people looking for a sunny getaway. Located in the Southern part of Spain in the Valencian Community, this pretty port city has a lot to offer. When the sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea, parts of Alicante transform into a lively nightlife mecca which caters for party-animals. With so many nightlife hotspots to choose from, it can be really tough to know where to go for an ice-cold cerveza or handcrafted cocktail. Read on for the Holiday Transfer teams’ top five of Alicante’s most incredible nightlife hotspots. Pop Gallery Perfectly positioned in the Playa de San Juan area, Pop Gallery wows party-goers with its tasty drinks, international DJs and enormous venue. It’s here that you can reserve a table to enjoy a tipple with friends, or hit the dancefloor until the wee hours of the morning. Pop Gallery is also situated within a new mega-complex called the Gastro Village. This area is home to an array of restaurants, cafes, and other entertainment options – so you can wander and explore this area by foot. Gastro Village is open 365 days a year. Kraken Club This newly opened hotspot provides one of the best places to view the sunset. It’s located in the heart of the Marina, set along the ocean front. Here you can...

Rumours and misinformation have persisted about the role of Gustav Winters in the history of Fuerteventura. Franco gifted part of the southern end of the island to Gustav Winters in the 1930s. But, what did he build there, why and what was the impact on Fuerteventura? Fact and fiction are intertwined and difficult to separate. This is partly because of Gustav Winters own appearance and myth-making as he liked to appear with large dark sunglasses and a little dog in tow. Plenty of people will tell you he was an engineer, an entrepreneur, a German spy or even one of Hitler’s top men and some, or maybe even all, of these are true. There was an airfield on the southern end of the island built by Gustav Winters. It was used until 1950 when the use of it was prohibited and it was visible from aerial photographs until the 1970s. Sadly, modern aerial photographs can no longer detect it. Many will tell you that the villa built by Gustav Winters was a secret entrance to a top-secret U-boat station. It is true that the southern end of the island was closed to the public during the Second World War. On balance, it is more likely that this was because of the airfield, but there was a U-boat shot at by the Allies close to Fuerteventura in 1943 which sank...