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The Costa Blanca north is a great place to book a beachfront villa rental Spain or Spanish apartments for rent for a fantastic summer holiday. The Costa Blanca north is a slightly less developed area of Spain due to the fact that large scale tourism tends to be centred around the Costa Blanca south and the Costa del Sol. This area offers a diverse mix of long, sandy beaches, stunning mountains and lush valleys, picturesque 'white villages', modern resorts, great golf and water sports facilities, fiestas, ancient churches, not to mention wonderful food and wine. All of this just a couple of hours travel from the UK. Let's look at some of the places to book villa or apartment holiday rentals Spain on the Costa Blanca north from the owners direct Spain.

Alicante

Alicante is one of the most well-known towns along the Costa Blanca and is the starting point for thousands of tourists who visit this coast every year. Many visitors arrive at Alicante Airport and then go straight to their beachfront villa rental Spain or Spanish apartments for rent at one of the beachfront holiday resorts and never see anything of the city. If you get a chance to linger there are plenty of things to see and do. There are many historical buildings around the city, cathedrals and churches to visit and of course you can enjoy a relaxing stroll around the wonderful harbour area. Alicante also has some good beaches including Mucho Vista and Playa San Juan.

Benidorm

Until the 1960's Benidorm was a quiet fishing village, but today it is very well known in Europe and thousands of visitors flock here every year and book a beachfront villa rental Spain or apartment holiday rentals Spain. One of the reasons is that Benidorm has attractions to suit all age groups from teenagers to families with young children and Pensioners. In the summer the majority of visitors are in the 18-30 age group looking for some fun in the sun whilst the low season is appealing to older couples who want to escape the gloomy north European winter weather. The resort has three Blue Flag beaches, a good range of night-time entertainment, many bars, restaurants and discos and a theme park on the edge of town.

Denia

Denia is located about 100km from Alicante and is a cosmopolitan town with all year round sunny weather and is a lovely spot to book your beachfront villa rental Spain or Spanish apartments for rent. The town is overlooked by Mount Montgo and surrounded by the beautiful Mount Montgo Natural Park. The castle in the centre of Denia dates from the 11th Century and was originally built by the Moors during the Arab Conquest. The town has an important harbour where you can catch a ferry to the Balearic Islands such as Ibiza.

Moraira

Moraira is a small, picturesque town and due to strict planning laws is still very pretty and not over-developed. If you booked a self-catering beachfront villa rental Spain or apartment holiday rentals Spain here you will find a good selection of restaurants and bars beside the pretty yacht marina where you can sit outside and watch the world go by. The town also has its own wide, gently-shelving sandy beach with shallow waters which has been awarded the EEC Blue Flag for cleanliness and is safe for family bathing.

Booking From The Owners Direct

So if any of these fantastic resorts on the Costa Blanca north appeal to you, and you decide to book a beachfront villa rental Spain from the owners direct don't forget to arrange some travel insurance before you go. You would be amazed at how many people just take out the bare minimum insurance or even no insurance at all. If you are not sure what you need, consult a reputable insurance broker who can advise you of the policies available and recommend the right one for your particular circumstances.

If you want a marvelous sunny vacation book Spanish apartments for rent on the Costa Blanca north. Villa and apartment holiday rentals in Spain are available on this beautiful coast but book early to avoid disappointment! It is possible to book a beachfront villa rental Spain directly with the private owners. Clive Long, the author, is a Director of the Holiday-Villa-Select website which offers cost effective holiday rentals in Spain booked direct with owners who advertise their holiday villa or apartment on this website no commission charged.

Dull by Design

It had been a fortress, convent, military hospital and prison at different times during its 500-year history. In places the incarcerated had carved their names into the stone, each letter as clear as the day it had been engraved during the height of the Spanish Civil War. Now, though, it was a hotel for transient visitors to a quiet corner of provincial Spain – as culturally different from the crowded beaches of the Costa del Sol as it is possible to be.

Not too long before I had stayed overnight in a very different type of hotel – modernist and design-led, it was the antithesis of the ancient structure in almost every way. Only in that they were both spotlessly clean and impeccably staffed could any parallels be drawn.

The contemporary version might well have littered its blurb with words such as “edgy”, “challenging” and “aesthetic”, but it could have saved ink and webpage space by simply writing “expensive character vacuum”. Not that this would have attracted the “edgy” clientele it could relieve of their cash, but it would at least have been bang-on accurate.

Of course, this is my opinion. And so is the assertion that ‘Design Hotels’ in general are utterly ghastly – monuments to the vanity of a metropolitan elite with more bank accounts than brain cells. By staying in one you’re affirming the superior modishness of their architects, interior designers and owners, as well as paying for the “I saw you coming” price tag décor. My opinion again, obviously.

Naturally, those of us who don’t see their point are, well, missing the point. We’re just not as style-savvy as the avant garde sophisticates – more boil-in-the-bag to their Michelin-starred haute cuisine Or, more likely, we just haven’t bought the bull and recognise pretentious bilge when we see it.

You see, the fundamental problem with ‘design hotels’ is that they frequently meld two of the worst facets of late 20th and early 21st century culture together: meaningless modern art and pompous contemporary architecture. And neither field has produced anything of beauty for as long as I can remember.

Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t to say that they’re completely devoid of talent or impressive work – Anthony Gormley’s Another Place at Crosby near Liverpool, and Sir Norman Foster’s ‘Gherkin’ (Swiss Re building) in London are proof of that. But they are both more impressive rather than out-and-out beautiful.

This certainly isn’t a case of the “shock of the new”; a mitigating plea so often used by proponents of the ultra-modern. It’s more about shockingly childish building design and decorating practice masquerading as the intellectual. The Medieval, Tudor, Jacobean and Georgian periods were separated by many years, but their styles were similarly focused on beauty and craftsmanship. Both of these attributes have abandoned ours. Completely.

Instead, contemporary architects of the “funky” variety have continually concocted incrementally more unsightly structures that go out of date faster than an open tub of yoghurt in Cairo. Platitudes such as 'exciting' and 'challenging' are more important good looks these days.

Gaining succour from their sycophantic mates in trendy city wine bars the world over, they plan and devise bigger and beastlier monuments-to-self to inflict on the bourgeosie - the only measure of success being how many nostrils of the general public they can get up. Museums, civic centres, shopping malls and art galleries (that perennial favourite of condescending arbiters of public funding), are all designed to be as aesthetically ridiculous as possible.

Of course, with so many design hotels being located in previously existing buildings the architectural shambles is generally confined to the interior. We should be thankful for small mercies, I suppose, but they’re still invariably examples of arty-farty cobblers.

I should stress, however, that I don’t have anything against the “boutique hotel” genre. They’re a very different thing, even if one or two have also disappeared up their own modernist fundaments. In fact, I’m all for small, independent places to stay that possess plenty of charm and, in boutiques, one tends to find atmospheres and environments in keeping with the historic fabric of the buildings in which they are situated. In fact, I’ll go as far as to say that I positively adore them.

Furthermore, this isn’t a tirade against the concept of transforming an old building into a hotel and subsequently altering it via installing all the modern facilities the 21st century traveller requires. I like crisp, clean, chic bathrooms as much as anyone else. And minibars.

No. My argument is based on the simple fact that I have never stayed in a modern hotel that has been anything but insipid. In contrast, the ambience of that off-the-beaten track Spanish hotel was magnificent. It didn’t need prints of abstract art or wacky furnishings to provide character because it already possessed it in every rough-hewn stone.

Old buildings are simply more engaging than the new. They exude the same vitality and splendour that made William Wordsworth eulogise about Tintern Abbey ruins and Thomas Gray about his English country churchyard. They add to our everyday experience more than most will ever realise. And that is why I seek them out wherever I travel.

Old is beautiful.

Christian Boulton is the creator of Nights In The Past, a guide to historic places to stay in the UK and Europe.

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Can you fit the 1.3L Rotary motor from the Mazda RX8 in a Honda Civic Del Sol?

Yes I mean under the hood not in the car. Seriously though, the Rotary engine has an insane RPM range and is extremely quick in the RX8. Save for the fact the Mazda is RWD, the Del Sol is 500LBS lighter which would allow for slight performance gain. The only problem I can foresee is finding a FWD Transmission that will couple up with the motor. You can make a Del Sol RWD but you butcher the car and make a Frankenstein in the process. I was just curious if it could be done, or if anyone had done it!

yes, in theory, it would physically fit and run with enough work, ie. custom engine mounts etc, if the engine is wired up and held in, it will run irregardless of host shell, search 'civette', the V8 LS1 powered civic EK!

it would cost alot -- may not be worth doing, but it would definately get you some attention if you did it! as you say, RWD in a del sol would just be wrong...but then finding a FWD box that can cope with the revs would be hard -- best try a honda type-R/VTi box like the Y21 or S4C, they cope with higher than average revs -- but not sure if its even possible to get them to work on the wankel engine...

Never heard of a rotary honda..so would be a unique project...but for what it would cost best just go for a B18C, SR20DET (FWD from almera), 3S-GTE, K20A etc they will give you the same if not better performance with less work/money involved...the wankel engines are have a good BHP output and are very tuneable...but the downside is they lack torque, so aren't great in low revs, and need frequent servicing and rotor tips replacing...and they eat oil...but still i like the engines.

but simple answer, yes it could be done -- tranny would be the biggest obsticale.

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