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Valencia Slideshow
Valencia
Travel Blogs from Valencia, Spain and Canary Islands
Old and err, new
... I prefer the former, and my opinion hasn't changed, however to did enjoy the day. The main mission was going to the beach. Valencia being a coastal town, this is probably the main reason people come here, or at least in the top 2, maybe 3. I don't ...
Ready....set.....tomato
Hola! Wow… 5 days in and we're already exhausted! But in a good way of course ;-) Arrival in Valencia was slightly more difficult than anticipated, made even more difficult by our lack of sleep and 37 degree temperature. The directions and map ...
The Rain in Spain- Part 3: Valencia
... After nap three we arrived at our last pit stop before Barcelona, lunch! We stopped at this restaurant for a typical and traditional Catalan meal which included; bread, calcots, a spring onion that was bbqed and then you take out the lower half ...
Tired little girls.....
... to do that second loop of the bus and check out the old quarter of the city. Another beautiful day and as I just mentioned the architecture in Valencia is amazing. We hit the road around lunchtime for Granada, which thankfully was only a short drive ...
Valencia = Spanish for "HOT"
... ridiculously excited for dinner because we would finally get to try authentic paella. You can order paella anywhere in Spain but Valencia is the birthplace of this dish. Even within Valencia, we were warned to only visit restaurants who ...
I see you in London
Llegamos por la mañana al aeropuerto de Manises y desde allí volvemos en metro hasta casa. Se acabo un intensísimo fin de semana en una ciudad enorme. A destacar: El albergue no era demasiado bueno ni tenía buena situación, pero dentro de lo caro ...
Catalonia is not Spain.
Valencia was awesome and Barca loneliness was soon replaced by perfecto solitudo. as we like to say in Espanya. Alas only one day spent in this pretty pretty city by the sea. Was great staying with a professional grafitti artist (and his 10 dogs), ...
Las Fallas
Las Fellas is a one week long celebration in Valencia. Nothing is happening much today except for the fireworks display at 2pm for 10 minutes. The town square was crowded with people but the fireworks were not that impressive because it is not the main ...
THE BEST PARK EVER!
... zones, playgrounds, a life-sized chessboard, and even a putt-putt course. Walking through the river park tells you a lot about Valencia and its people. An afternoon in the park gives you a good look at the people and culture of Valeicna as ...
Not enough hours in the day! May 4-16
... quantities like our Eastern Europe experiences! Last weekend, my friends took me to their apartment in Benidorm (about 140km south of Valencia) and we did a hike up one mountains on Sunday morning. It was an amazing view and we went with two ...
Sampling different foods!
... the course, but still, I want to make a good impression and maybe entertain them for an hour! The weather has cooled down substantially and poured rain the other day at 3am. The rain, thunder and lightning woke me up and made me a bit groggy for ...
NIT DE FOC
I never thought that I would end up following a Brazilian steel drum band through the streets of Valencia. I met Tai and Alina to see this band play. It was quite an interesting experience. They had gathered a small crowd to here them play the first ...
On The Road to Sagunto
... of an old Castle or Fortress (one and the same in many places). This was in sharp contrast to wealthy and modern Valencia where we stopped for dinner. As we pulled into Sagunta after dark the striking feature was the illuminated Castle walls ...
Las Fallas
... . Took a tour-bus and stayed in the city for about ten hours. The tradition is to build enormous paper-machet sculptures and then torch them. Also, people are throwing around fire works constantly. There would have been some really cool pictures from this ...
LA TOMATINA FESTIVAL!!!!!
... of the things everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime. We begin our trip catching a 3hour train from Barcelona to Valencia. And spend the day exploring. People have mentioned that Valencia is a great place?? We would disagree, there is ...
A Splendid Hot Spring Surprise
... is definitely a time when the statement "A picture is worth a thousand words" comes to describe our wonderful trip around the province of Valencia and beyond. 2) Our trip guide and new pen-pal, Mike, picked us up promptly at 10 am after Bridge and I ...
El Tribunal de las Aguas
... (our professor) had suggested that we meet up at 11:30. While we waited he told us all sorts of interesting things about Valencia and some of the traditions. The closer it got to 12:00, the more crowded it got until finally we were standing ...
Oh, Calatrava, you amaze me.
Valencia was our last stop on our Tour de Spain...it was sketchy. We went to the silk hall, Santiago Calatrava's favorite building, which was beautiful. We had paella for dinner that night, which was phenomenal, then headed to Calatrava's City of Arts and ...
Mesmerizing Valencia
... too tired to do very much sightseeing, but from what I have seen so far, it is simply breathtaking. It's too bad for Valencia that so much attention is focused on its northern neighbour Barcelona... I got into VLC airport at about 2:30pm, got a map ...
Valencia
Arrived from Barcelona Valencia was a great city for me. Pretty small with amazing architecture everywhere. It houses the only holy grail recognized by the vatican- pretty disappointing that it wasn't floating or glowing or anything but what can you ...
Biology classes in Valencia start!!
So Monday was the first day that our biology classes started in Valencia. The entire group of kids met up in the afternoon. Beforehand a few of us decided to meet up at the market before class to check out the Tapas around that area, and to pick up some ...
Hola!
... the whole group went out to dinner for one of the girl´s birthdays. I had my first paella! It´s a pretty popular food here in Spain, and there´s all kinds of varieties. Getting ready to go shopping here in a little while - I promise I won´t spend too ...
The City of Science
... in me came out. There were experiments you can do such as practice body surgery, experiment with your senses, study electricity and much more. The Aquarium is the largest in Europe. In terms of square footage, it has to be the largest ...
Rest, Relaxation & Recharging
... get stranded in town afterwards but managed to navigate the night bus system like true travellers! Our last day in Valencia we spent enjoying the coast of Spain - had a Paella de Valenciana, which unbeknown to us also contained lots of snails. Luke tucked ...
A little flamenco
It was weird how much things had changed since I had arrived in Valencia and was living in the hostel less than two months ago. I took Ashley down to the Central Market, and we wandered through and purchased blood oranges, bread, and green peppers. Then ...
More Family time less sightseeing
... and a 4 in 1 game set first thing in the morning, which was followed by some breakfast (with macedonia, mixed fruit) and a trip to downtown Valencia to see all the sites. We saw the Torres (towers) which are famous because they were the original ...
Valencia
... the endangered species list. I guess some tourists really just live up to the stereotypes... Later on I visited the Cathedral in Valencia. It seemed to be a pretty standard old church, however they have a chapel on the side which apparently contains the ...