Blogs from Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain, Europe

A vegetacao na estrada entre Barcelona e Valencia eh diferente do que de Madrid a Barcelona. Eh tudo mais parecido com o Brasil, muito verde, arvores, montanhas. Tinhamos marcado de um host em Valencia nos receber, soh que ele soh poderia nos encontrar as 7pm, e haviamos chegado as 3pm em Valencia. Decidimos dirigir em direcao ao mar e dar uma espiada na praia. Areia branca, praia imensa, pessoas fazendo esportes, comendo nos restaurantes. Decidimos nao descer do carro e dar uma volta no centro primeiro, depois voltar para a praia, ateh porque tinhamos tempo. Achamos o centro da cidade e tiramos fotos do carro mesmo, era soh para ver o estilo da cidade mesmo. Tinhamos que voltar para a praia, e quem diz que achamos o caminho de volta? Nao fazemos ideia de onde fomos ... read more

Yesterday, on my 39th birthday, we woke to a beautiful shimmering Mediterranean morning. The sunlight was playing off of the water in the distance and I felt like it was wishing me a good year. ☺ We got our stuff together, checked out of the hotel, and started to drive toward Valencia. We had a hankering for some food, but didn’t want to guess at a restaurant. So we headed toward the golden arches. The arches led us to a mall. So we went in and bought a couple of things, headed to McDonalds and had a nice burger ‘n’ fries type of meal, followed by my first birthday treat, which was Häagen-Dazs – a scoop of crème brulee and a scoop of chocolate with pralines and caramel. Yum. We got on the road for Valencia. ... read more

Note: All the events mentioned in this entry occurred back in April 17, 2007. For more updated entries and trips, please refer back to this blog at a later date. An updated trip or entry will NOT include a note like this. Thanks and enjoy! Before traveling to Spain, even to the European continent, I knew one of the sites I just had to see was L'Oceanografic at La Ciudad de Artes y Las Ciencias after watching a program about it on the Travel Channel. I have always loved aquariums, even when I was a child because I loved to learn about whales and dolphins. I wanted to become a marine biologist and/or an animal trainer (and I will admit secretly I wouldn't mind becoming one if I had a chance to change careers) therefore I ... read more

Note: All the events in this entry occurred back in April 15-16, 2007. For more updated entries and trips, please refer back to this blog at a later date. An updated entry to trip will NOT include a note like this. Thanks and enjoy! I woke up early the next day to check out of my hostel and then head to my second destination, Valencia. I decided to take the bus, Spain's national line actually. The ride was 8 hours from Granada to Valencia, not what I had planned because now my visit there was now cut down to two instead of three, however this was my best option to get there. While at the bus station, I ran into a young lady who had stayed at my hostel in Granada. We hadn't really talked to ... read more

Another night of luxury accommodation in the airport in morocco, the floor was so sore!!! I pulled out all my belongings to lay on but nothing cushioned us. At about 1am the airport decided they were going to close, so we headed outside and found a nice patch of grass to sleep on, taking rotations on who was on lookout :) We arrived into Madrid after our flight to the clapping of europeans- who all clap when the plane lands. Of course we decided to join in! But such a strange custom- almost like they didn't expect us to land. We were catching a bus from madrid to seville, so had a picnic in the park at the madrid bus station with the homeless all of us sitting on cardboard. Alice was still really sick and ... read more