Holiday Inn Valencia

... quite possibly be shocked about ("cause we're in a Mediterranean climate, right?") is the lack of vegetables in the standard Spanish diet. Ham, ham they've got down cold (and I don't even eat the stuff), ...tortilla, olives/oil, oranges, cheese, wine...fantastico! Vegetables? I think those are grown for frying. But Valencia, that's different. The Valencian diet actually includes tons of produce and all things super duper fresh. So ...

... 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.

... cold! The next day we spent shopping at their huge outdoor market and sightseeing. Our day was cut a little short because apparently in Valencia, the WHOLE city shuts down for siesta. We ended up walking around for over an hour, only to find nothing open.
All around, it was a really successful trip! Hope everyone is doing well, and I miss you all very much.

Love,
Amy

... 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 ...

... en la récamara mientras un charter sobrevuela la pista de aterrizaje. Doscientas luces iluminan la zona de embarque, un letrero rojo destaca la tienda del Duty Free. Tres horas de espera en el bar del aeropuerto mientras llega nuestro avión rumbo Timisoara." En el avión puede que seamos los únicos españoles.

... dressed up as women, some of the other girls were hippies, etc. It didn't really seem as important as at home to be dressed up to go out. So everyone left at about midnight and Sunny and the girls got back at about 5 in the morning. I felt sick all night, but I was better in the morning. Sunny had a turn for the worse though. She was sick the whole rest of the weekend. Day 6, Saturday November 1st We went out without Sunny because she was ...

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 ...

... media sources and movies had led me to believe that Europeans know everything about the US and everyone knows English because they all speak 10 different languages. Again, this is not the case in Spain. Most of the students and people I meet don't know where Ohio is (and I think only a quarter even knew there was a state called Ohio). I don't fault any of them for this because when I realized that don't know as much about America as I ...

... main plaza. 12:30 was the final burning of the falla in the main square. Everyone and their mom was there, but somehow we managed to wedge ourselves behind a truck and get a pretty good view. There was a true display of fireworks here, and everyone cheered as sychronized explosions ripped into the giant fallas. Another cheer arose as the structure finally collapsed in on itself, signalling the end of one very big party. We turned for home. Fallas was over.