At long last - a memorial on Alicante dock side

So, at long last Alicante has its memorial to the Republicans captured at the end of the Civil War on the City's dockside. It has taken decades of struggle, and a seismic shift in the political make up at the City Hall, to enable this to happen some 77 years after the event. It is a sharp and fitting tribute and it's not tucked away in a corner, it is right there on the main portside walk although the backdrop of luxury yachts is a bit incongruous. I was chuffed to see that the International Brigades Memorial Trust had been over for a visit and that Alicante has twinned with Cardiff in memory of the heroic Archibald Dixon, captain of the Stanbrook, who took huge risks to rescue as many refugees as he could. For the rest, it was concentration camps, death and torture. They will now never be forgotten.