Bali Gandia

Wednesday 10th February

'Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?' Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality !!!’

Yes, start the day with a song, although we didn’t feel like singing as the alarm clock goes off at 7.30am. Oooooh – must be moving day!

Quick breakfast and we’re soon packed...

Thursday 7th January.

After a late night and a full meal we didn't sleep well. Up and a light breakfast before completing packing and checking out. Guess what - it's payback time!! It was pouring with rain and the temperature was around 12 deg, can't cope with this !!!!

We caught a bus through the soaking and gridlocked streets...

The plan was to stay in Satungo and catch the train to Valencia which was 25km further south. On arrival in Satungo we were not overly impressed but we sought out the tourist information in order to find a place to park. The tourist office told us there was nowhere to park except in a camp ground 7km away which we then would not be able to get t...

We challenged our limits to cycle from Valencia to Alcoy in 1 day, about 130 km! We arrived late in the night after cycling the last 10 km over a busy national road in the dark (was not much fun), then cycled straight up in Alcoy for 2 km and walked the last km in wild nature with rocks, sand and even had to carry our bikes up two crazy stairs. ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for 2009! Before I start, I must apologise for all my spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in the last entry - I really must have been tired, it was dreadful! Anyway, hope you at least got the gist of it all ie: in Spain, settling in, enjoying it and celebrating Christmas season. We got to Christmas Eve, an...

August 29-31 They call it Tomatina and its why I ventured a couple of hours south of Barcelona to Valencia. The town in which the festival is held, Bunol (which should hacve one of those squlggly lines over the n, but the keyboards in Germany do´n't have those charachters, just cool ß's and Ö's and stuff like that), is about 40 minutes by local ...

Well, I can't believe the tour is almost over... second last stop, Valencia. After a 7 hour bus ride which got us to the hotel (although I would call it more a hostel - at 1.30am, we finally got into our delightful room... not! By far the worst place we stay in, no toilet in the room, no air conditioning and no screen or door separating the show...

This was the day I discovered special sandwich number 3. It is a combination of chicken, ham, mayonnaise, cheese, and French fries. The key ingredient here was French fries, something I had never had on a sandwich. In fact, I quickly developed a craving for the starchy goodness. And café con leche of course. *** This morning was Control de Proce...

Ali entered the room. "Want to watch TV?" he inquired. He eagerly switched it on and changed it to MTV. We shared an intercultural moment together, entranced by the wonders of pop culture. The next video turned out to be Hilary Duff. "Oh, like the beer!" said Ali proudly. I translated this out of Spanish and was trying to figure out what beer he...

I walked into, literally, a cathedral to food. El mercado central, the central market, was an old religious building that was know occupied by row after row of colorful and bustling food stalls. My eyes jumped from strange and exotic foods to rather interesting presentations of skinned animals. And a pigs head. Who would buy a pigs head. As I le...