11 Flats Valencia
Santo Tomas, 22 Valencia, Valencian Country, 46003, Spain and Canary Islands
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A Navel Experience
... of the whole place was in fact a bit Sydney Opera House - meets Star Wars! One building has even been dubbed as 'Darth Vadar' (see if you can pick it from the pics!) We wandered around, enjoying the outdoor photography exhibition and quite blown away by the feel of the place, whilst thanking our lucky stars we weren't paying for film in this very photogenic location!
As we were so busy snapping away we ended up leaving Valencia quite late and so missed the early ...
Oranges !! Not Apples !
... have either seafood or the white meats - never together! While we both love seafood, Jim and I opt for a Valencian paella, which is chicken and rabbit. Lunch is an all afternoon affair in Spain so we enjoyed the next couple of hours slowly working our way through this wonderful meal. Valencian oranges and Valencian paella are the two winners of this leg of our trip and we loved both of them. With full tummies our lovely hosts waved us off as we caught the bus out to ...
Make em go ohohoh as you shoot across the sky ayay
March 19th this year was interesting for 3 big reasons. First of all, it was Father's day in Spain, so happy Father's Day to all those dads out there reading this. Second of all, the moon was really close to the earth, like the closest it's been in my life or something. I hope you saw it. Third, and most importantly, I went to Valencia for Las fallas. Woah.
Friday night I made the bad decision of going out. I only have ...
At least it was sunny
... called the Spanish inquisition and they did not really care for the Jews. They would persecute and a lot of the time end up executing a lot of people who were Jewish because every problem that existed in Christendom at the time apparently originated with the Jews. Although the majority of the reputation the Spanish Inquisition earned was due to protestant propaganda, the fact remains that they ended up killing around 1,100 people over the course of 5 years. ...
Spanish Culture 101: Flamenco and Bulls
... the crime and that poor man would have been out 5 credit cards, 120 Euro, and all forms of identification! It was a good feeling to be able to help him out, and in exchange he offered to buy us tickets to any bullfight this week or to take us out to dinner. Although we politely declined, it was really great to see how happy he was just to have all of his belongings back, especially considering it probably would have been several minutes before he even knew he ...



