After years of delays, the high-speed train (AVE) rail connection between Madrid, Elche and Orihuela is due to start operating next week.
The journey to the nation’s capital will take less than two-and-a-half hours from the south of Alicante province and tickets are already on sale.
Full report in today’s Costa Blanca News – available from supermarkets, tobacconists/newspaper shops and online at www.costa-news.com