Expo Valencia

... That's crazy talk. Will and I allotted a good few hours one day for lunch to settle in to some Paella Valenciana from El Rall in the Old City. Paella Valenciana is typically made with rabbit and chicken and green veggies like lima beans, artichokes, peppers...etc. This and Paella Mariscos, with shell fish, are the most common.

Of course we did more than simply eat. We explored. Quite a bit actually. And being tourists as we ...

... interested. They have a great complex- The City of Arts and Sciences which you can easily spend two whole days in. There's everything from dolphin shows to films on Egyptology.
Found the city to be a little quiet and not just as impressive as other spainish cities, such as Seville, but def worth a visit- especially if you can join it up with a feista- I would love to go back for La fallas.

... 4 bed private room for only 3 people, and it was huge. It offered free linen, free WiFi, and free storage lockers. All around, a great first hostel experience.
The next day we spent the day at the beach. It wasn't the greatest weather, but just being at the beach at the end of September felt great. This was also my first time in the Mediterranean Sea, which was exciting, but ...

... extra night in Valencia and travel with her until the 15th of October. So...very unlike myself, I set myself free of my calendar which by this point was very meticulously planned and am planning on traveling the rest of Spain with her.

The three amigos, very appropriate considering we are now all friends in Spain where they speak Spanish. However I supposed Amigas would be more ...

Valencia is a beautiful city and Spain continues to dazzle me! Great architecture greets you at every turn, there are fantastic churches all around, and a dry riverbed runs through the entirety of the city, and typical of Spain, they beautified it and it's now a super green park with trees galore, sports fields, walkays, and it ...

... to dry...from underwear to toilet paper. This was a perfect little beach side spot. Sunset, bonfire, the waves attacking rocks... The next day we found some mandarin trees and as it was the season we had to eat as much as we could and pick our pockets full and some more...yummie...sweet and juicy. The night passed in a Nature Park...we tried smth new...to put the tent covers on the tree and sleep under them...but for the morning we realised it wasnt the greatest idea as some of us got ...

Bloody love this place, so pretty!

Arrived here from Barcca in a hire car. The journey was simple as anything. It's motorway all the way down.

Our hotel was quite terrible. We were trying to sneak an extra person in the room too, which probably didn't help. It was on some industrial estate about a 20 minute drive from the center of town. It was an average sterile kinda place, fine I suppose just not my type of place. I forget it's name.

Next ...

... years in Spain. There is no life-sentencing and no death penalty. THe professor says that the difference between the US and Spain is that US is more concentrated on punishment while Spain is more concentrated on rehabilitation. Whether or not that is actually completely accurate I don't know, but I thought it was interesting none the less. Even though crime has a less sentencing time in Spain, they have less crime than the US. Anyways ...

... as he pedaled around. Also the Chinese dragons that were carried around, burning, by several men. In the end there was a display of firewords around the triumphal arch in the center of the plaza. It was...different. The only thing remaining was to burn the Fallas. It's a really strange concept- to spend all year building a piece of art to burn it down after 4 days. It seems crazy really until you think about how special it makes the fallas, and how they ...