Blogs from Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain, Europe - page 39

Sundays in Spain are soooooooo annoying, absolutely everything was closed. Met some cool people in the hostel, Greg from US adn two Belgiums whose name I cant pronounce, we headed to the beach. Warmest water ever because its so shallow. That night we wetn in search of Flamenco dancing but got stooged with some acoustic music, it was still cool though. ... read more

Off to Valencia to see the City of Science. Our hostel finally had a kitchen and you wouldn't believe how excited we were to cook pasta. Imagine, me excited about cooking!?! The markets in Valencia weren't as pretty as those in Barcelona, but they were much bigger and had more quality stuff. We bought some saffron because Spain is apparently the place to get the good stuff. Our pasta dinners and lunch sandwiches etc. were so tasty from the fresh ingredients and wonderful cheese. Our second day was spent in the City of Science. Funky architecture (unfortunately stuffy due to the many windows, I guess air circulation was sacrificed in the looks). I had so much fun playing in the "forest of chromosomes" yes people, the geekiness follows through on vacation. It was a huge display ... read more

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“as the site is close to the sea, and valencia is so dry, i decided to make water a major element for the whole site using it as a mirror for the architecture.” -santiago calatrava (architect of the ciudad de artes y ciencias) the ciudad de las artes y las ciencias (city of arts and sciences - www.cac.es) is a white monster of modern architechture. it is built where a river used to run (so, in a dry riverbed), and with the provided sidewalk you can walk all the way to downtown valencia. neato, gang... on friday night we started walking along the riverbed walk with the intention to go to downtown valencia (we hadn´t been there yet as we had gone to the beach that afternoon instead). basically the entire time we were walking we ... read more

Our first (serious) travel experience! Started absolutely fantastic, ended even better :) We stayed at this pretty hotel in a tiny place called L'liana , right nearby Valencia. And it was a good choice. Instead of listening to busy streets and being annoyed by noisy pedestrians we could sleep peacefully, away from the city. That's all we really wanted regarding nights, because we weren't going to spend all days in the room or a swimming pool. It took us a whole week to discover the Spanish beauty and wonders. Every single morning we would wake up at 8 am, have some gorgeous breakfast (such as MASSIVE strawberries or watermelons) and wander off to a bus stop, where we would catch a bus to the city of Valencia. Apart from admiring enormous palm trees and sunny weather, ... read more