Eurostar Gran Valencia Hotel

... settle in for some rest. Then the guy behind me hands me a folded piece of paper. I had noticed before that he was giving me the 'eyes' at the rest stop. But I had pretended not to notice as I was not interested in what he was selling. So the note says: Kiss love Heh? Am I in 4th grade again? I couldn't not open it. Inside it had his name, email address and phone number. And it said: Want to kiss?

HOW DID I INVITE THAT?

Was it the drool on my chin (I'm not ...

... arrived in Valencia at 5am so I was so exhausted and had to navigate my way to the hostel in this condition. When I arrived I could not check in so I slept on the couch in the computer room until 9 am and still could not check in until 3pm so I wasted half the day just lounging in the tv room and talking to some australian girls. Once I got the energy I went out and explored the city. I passed through a beautiful botanical garden full of stray cats which ...

... part in all parts of the process and to taste it after-wards!!! [ The sourdough pasta madre that is used is already 11 years old and comes from a Christian community near Alcoy. Jordy learned to bake amazing organic sourdough bread and can support himself and the project with this. He offered us a part of sourdough to take ...

... just). Recycling is easier and sometimes even faster! You are just lucky with what you get (mostly even surprised and excited!). You decide what to take by checking what is still edible and hygienically sane to take. Then you start to think: "O yesterday we already recycled loads of broccoli, we can leave this. and take some carrots instead..". No worries about spending too much, buying things that are unhealthy or not ...

... viena - salzburg
22sept: salzburg - hallstat - salzburg
23sept: salzburg - zurich tren nocturno
24sept: zürich - winterthur - schaffhaussen - rheinfall (cataratas rhin) - stein am rhein - zürich
25sept: zürich - lucerna - interlaken
26sept: interlaken - grindelwald
27sept: Grindelwald - interlaken - berna
28sept: berna - laussane - montreaux - fribourg
29sept: fribourg - basel - vuelo a alicante

... a Siesta- I'm having a bit of trouble getting over jetlag

I've me a few people that I got along with very well. In particular a fellow Canadian- Some guys from Colorado- A couple great Germans and a few British.

Great times... But man! I want to get more sleep.

The school organizes social events- so something always going on. Really nice way to get settled into the city.

... and the Holy Grail - not the movie, the actual chalice! Or so they say. The Vatican is happy to believe them, so if the Pope says it's the real McCoy, that's good enough for me!) St Catherine's Church (had the most beautiful bell tower) Palacio del Marques de Dos Aguas (don't even know what this building was, and we never went inside, it just had the most amazing facade that we had ...

... the saying goes you get what you pay for, literally 10 seconds after the umbrella goes up it breaks due to the strong wind! We managed to spend a few hours there without getting burnt. Valencia tried to create their own version of some futuristic architecture to raise their international profile the way Barcelona did. As a result there is a cluster of 5 sections which hold an array of museums and walking areas. It looks great but is such a contrast to its Old City.

ottima giornata di relax in quel di Valencia... dormito, gironzolato, mangiato bene (non la paella perche' pare che la sera non si possa mangiare, troppo pesante dicono), mi sono finalmente presa un po' di caldo e ho annusato un po' di mediterraneo. Fra qualche ora ho l'aereo per Milano. Scrivero' sicuramente ancora qualcosa ma non oggi... i neuroni si rifiutano di funzionare!

... while then found this pub that was pumping. So we went inside and had a few more drinks of beer. We met these Swedish girls who joined us. We kept drinking and talking until about 5am. By this point the night is done and so are we. Slept in until about 3pm he next day. At six o'clock we went to the beach just as the sun was setting and did the polar bear swim. We were expecting ...