Blogs from Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain, Europe - page 35

I've now moved down to Valencia for the Las Fallas Festival and staying with Will Tay in luxury living but I'll just recap the few days in Barcelona. Barcelona I got to a point where I got to see most of the city and actually get to know it really well as I was there for 7 days all up. I met so many awesome people including many Americans on their spring break. I also met this very nice Polish girl called Monika and so we hung out for a few days, and during this time she convinced me to go bungy jumping. Now when I rung up the place and booked it, it seemed like a professional outfit so was happy to go along with it. So we took a small train ride out of ... read more

Last weekend we took a bus to Valencia, a GORGEOUS city that is located right on the coast of the Mediterranean. I realized that, no matter where I live in the future, I have to be near water. I felt so relaxed and alive being so close to the beach. It was amazing. The night that we arrived in Valencia we went on a tour of the city, which is huge and very nice. That night Matt, Carla, and I ventured on an hour and a half walk to see if we could find the beach. We definitely got lost, but found it eventually. It was such a great feeling. Everything about it was wonderful: the smell of the saltwater, the sand between my toes, it was great. The next morning we had an opportunity to ... read more

How wonderful!!! We have nothing but good things to say about Valencia! Jes and I have decided it's our favorite city to date, no question. It's beautiful, warm, on the water, clean, and easy to navigate. We really couldnt ask for better. Anyway, so we arrived on friday evening after a bus to the airport and then a short flight into Valencia...then a taxi to finally get to our hotel. We dropped off our stuff and headed out to the historic center. What a beautiful area!! It was adorable! Wide open tree-lined streets connecting open piazzas with little shops and restaurants scattered around them. The streets were well lit and the whole section was brimming with people-teenagers on skateboards, old couples taking walks, families with young children, friends sitting down for a beer. Everyone seemed to ... read more

Feeling the January blues after a fun old Christmas and New Year, the Baso boys were chomping at the bit when Shaun twirled his mighty mullet in the direction of a long weekend away in February to warmer, more cultural climes. Team G.E.L, (don’t ask!), was soon formed and cheap flights, and a cheap, but thanks to a first-hand recommendation from the legendary Sarah Lloyd, but brilliant hostel were all booked. All that was left was to find our passports and set the alarms - the 3a.m. start was not going to be pleasant!! Heavy snowfall on the day before we were supposed to leave looked a little ominous, but by the time we had to leave the weather was completely clear, and very much on the nippy side! Nug seemed to have got a little ... read more

This past week and weekend have been fairly uneventful. I had classes Tuesday through Thursday, and spent my time off eating and going online (trying to put pictures up in this blog...which is a painfully slow process). So keep checking back, because I will be adding the rest of the Barcelona ones soon, and also adding some aquarium pictures and some pictures I took of my room too. My classes are going well, they are really easy! I don't have much homework at all, only for my spanish class, and there isn't much for that anyway. I had my first art history class on Tuesday, it will be very cool, we get to go on field trips to see different museums every other week. And during our first class, we learned about different styles of architecture ... read more