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G'day Friends and Family This blog is a brief overview of our 6 days in Spain, including the infamous La Tomatina (tomato throwing festival) in the small town of Bunol (pronounced Bunyol). We hope you enjoy looking at the photos as much as we did producing them! Monday 29/08/05 We arrived in Madrid airport (it reminded me of the old Coolangatta airport - very 'no frills') and picked up our hire car - the diesel Seat Ibiza! Needless to say, it wasn't over-powered. But that was a good thing considering we were driving on the wrong side of the road from [View Full Entry]

JK Rach - Justin Keevers & Rachael Reilly | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 1st 2006 | 479 Views | [diary=17406]

A bit e of breakfast and a beer before heading down to the main street
Locals in the streets before the craziness
Rach and Jen getting warmed up

After an early morning wake-up call (more like just taking a two-hour nap after a night of fun in Rome), I flew from the Rome Ciampino airport to Valencia this morning. Not only did the early morning flight push my physical and mental limits, but the constant screaming of a baby on the plane and random singing from other passengers did me in. So, when I entered the lobby of the hotel I'm staying in Valencia, I was ecstatic! I could not believe it- a real hotel. Not a hostel where I would have to share my space with nine other [View Full Entry]

MaggyPaggy - Margaret Pagaduan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 30th 2005 | 182 Views | [diary=18077]


Hola everybody, Well here I am in sunny Spain and Wow what an experience so far. Firstly I think I should of taken a lot more Spanish lessons. I flew out Thursday afternoon and arrived 9.30pm. First thing first was that I had to get to Tarragona from Rues airport. The easiest option would most likely of been a taxi but you all know me, tight arse decided to do public transport seeing it would be so much cheaper. So I boarded the bus to Rues and then changed in Rues to go to Tarragona. Not overly difficult but when no [View Full Entry]

Sarah and Princess Sparkle explore the world - Sarah Campbell | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 1st 2005 | 235 Views | [diary=17857]

The old Town
museushaus Castellarnau - courtyard
museushaus Castellarnau

Cheapest hotel to book (cheaper than a hostel)... 25 euros per person per night... = AC Hotel Valencia, we backpack in style. We love you AC Hotel Valencia!! [View Full Entry]

DTeam and Scottie - Krista and Julia | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 5th 2005 | 436 Views | [diary=18629]

mini bar
turkish
turkish julia

hey ... well some seem to be confused!!.. weleft agnes(the van) in seville and now sheis on fire ...not literally ....we went by bus frerry and train down to morocco and now we are with the van across spain to valencia andf then up to barcelona... left my camera in the vanm again!!!... hehe... one day!!... we still areokfor money and are hoping to streach our fundsuntillbeerfest... space bar doesnt work..grr.. valencia is beautifull.. have to go love you all [View Full Entry]

alaya - Alaya Spencer-Cotton | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 11th 2005 | 163 Views | [diary=16262]


We left Barcelona early in the morning and I listened to Michael Buble songs on Dan's i-pod throughout the quick ride to Valencia. When we got to Valencia, I was immediately enamoured: clean, white and tall buildings, a beautiful fountain in the middle of a big, beautiful square, and frankly, I was just happy to be out of Barcelona. I constantly feel like I'm going to be pickpocketed at any minute there. We had to walk a fair piece in the boiling heat to our amazing hostel, Home Backpackers. Along the way, I chatted with Chris Floreani (Flo), Chris Franga (Frank [View Full Entry]

AndyMac - Andrea MacDonald | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 24th 2009 | 267 Views | [diary=366501]

Valencia beach
Ciutat de les Arts i les Cičncies
Valencia

As promised here is the Fallas installation of my travel blog. Since everyone asks me "what is this thing called Fallas?" and then after an explanation I get "how is that allowed during Lent?" I will answer both of these questions for you. :) Fallas is celebrated every year March 13 - 19, the week before St. Joseph's Day. Falla means fire in Valenciano and every neighborhood and sometimes street spends hundreds of thousands of euros in the construction of various sized fallas - which are papier mache creations that they then display in their neighborhood. The theme changes every year [View Full Entry]

CurlieL17 - Lisa | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 17th 2005 | 3127 Views | [diary=5788]

Boxer Falla
Catwoman
From Plaza de Ayuntamiento Falla

By Evana
March 22nd 2005
Las Fallas Europe » Spain » Valencian Community » Valencia
We’ve just come back from the Las Fallas festival in Spain. On our first day we spent the afternoon walking around the city, taking in as many of the Fallas figures as possible. They range in size from a few feet high to the size of a city building and can cost up to a hundred thousand dollars. On Thursday we made the mistake of trying to walk through the main plaza at 2.00pm to try and get to the supermarket. Unfortunately it was pretty hard to wade through 10s of thousands of people who were waiting for the daytime firework [View Full Entry]

Evana - Greg Jacobson & Evana Hyman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 14th 2006 | 57 Views | [diary=58399]

Valencia
Valencia
Valencia

Marty, Mr Electronic Superstar, has been given the opportunity to be a member of the Swiss America’s Cup Team, Alinghi, working from Valencia until mid 2007. So where do ya think the first place in Spain was going to be that I would visit? Friday off work, and out to Gatwick I go. A very uneventful plane ride later, I land at the sunny little airport to find Marty awaiting my arrival, having taken time out of his busy schedule. Off we toddled to the Tryp Oceanic, the hotel that Alinghi were housing him in. Very nice place, with great views [View Full Entry]

B C vs The World - Barrie and Charmaine | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 15th 2005 | 148 Views | [diary=16619]

Aquarium
IMAX
Cool supermarket

Hey kids, Pia here, reporting from Valencia, where the sun shines all the time and people take it slow. Or something like that. Maybe I shouldn´t be in advertising. The remainder of our time in England can be summed up by the following: mid-morning gambling, cold, Australians, cream tea, museums, horrid fish and chips, sleep, hippies, airport. There you go. We spent Tuesday night in Stansted airport, where we got zero sleep and ate a full English breakfast at 3:30 a.m. Once we got off the plane in Spain, we had no idea what to do, so we quickly latched on [View Full Entry]

eurolizandpia - Liz and Pia | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 17th 2005 | 417 Views | [diary=4989]