Blogs from Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain, Europe - page 10

We set off towards our next stop: Valencia, it’s quite a drive (around 460 kms) so we scheduled in a couple of stops along the way. We thought a stop in Alicante would be a good halfway(ish) point and Steve decided that we couldn’t pass so close to Benidorm without a stop there too, just to experience it first-hand! An interesting few days followed!! I actually quite liked Alicante, it was fairly built up along the beach but not to the ‘high rise’ extent, some of the apartments and villas were quite attractive and there were hardly any of the expected tat shops, beach bars, restaurants etc., also, probably because we were still visiting early in the season, the beach wasn’t crowded. There’s a kind of pedestrianized promenade with nice white stone benches to sit down ... read more

Dave, Julia and I explored Valencia by foot. Julia was raving that we had to try 'bubble tea' so we went to the bubble tea store. It is basically a fruit tea cold drink in which they throw in some small flavoured balls (known to use tapioca) that burst in your mouth and give you a flavour. I had banana flavour with strawberry balls. We walked around and saw various monuments, walked through parks and visited the botanical garden which we had lots of fun taking photos. We walked up an appetite and we all fancied some good paella, so I googled a great little restaurant where we had a feast of various yummy starters and a massive wok of amazing paella that could have fed the 5000. This was also the night we were supposed ... read more

When not attending weddings, we did look at buildings and beaches here! Our beach in Cullera was great for barefoot running, and the hills were great for walks. Valencia has amazing architecture, especially in the center....everywhere you look, there's another beautiful building... We drove to Castelldefels, south of Barcelona today, with a lovely stop in the town of Tarragona....with a Roman amphitheater right on the sea, lots of other Roman ruins, a well-done archeological museum (free today!), and great food. We ended up on toll roads a few times (thanks a lot, GPS) and the tolls are really high: over $27 for under two hours of driving.... Castelldefels is right on the sea, with cliffs coming down behind....we choose it for the free parking and easy train ride into Barcelona... Our hotel tonight isn't great, so ... read more

Sunday Valencia Went for walk along river park towards. Estuary and great place but only 10 degrees plus constant drizzle , ended up in science museum to get warm and architecture is Star Wars type, very modern Had few small beers in skinny bar plus lunch, menu in Spanish uncle ken crap at Spanish so ended up with iced soup, not happy when my nice hot paella valencian with chicken turned up Great Craic and we now having small rest before tapas dinner in local restaurant, ken mentioned he needs to release rest of "frank Bruno " so gone off to squeeze him out in his loo. Spanish water playing hell with his bowel movements. Just been garage to top oil on my BMW tractor, plus add some very nice Honda stickers to kens bike to ... read more

An diesem Tag habe ich mir zuerst die Kathedrale von Valencia und dann die sehenswerte moderne Architektur der Stadt der Künste angesehen. Dann habe ich mir in einem Starbucks ein wenig die Zeit vertrieben bevor ich den Zug nach Barcelona genommen habe von wo ich mit dem Nachtzug nach Paris weiter gereist bin.... read more