Holiday Inn Valencia

... was stowed underneath the bus. The ride was fine; beautiful scenery, excellent sleeping conditions, an open seat next to me the whole time, great. Granted I couldn't find food at any of our pit stops, but I'm starting to think this is just karma's way of telling me I need to lose some of the pasta fat. We had an extended stop (45 minutes) in some random town. Since the battery on my laptop died I decide I'll put it in my backpack so at least it's not weighing my arm down ...

I am never taking an overnight train again. So I left Granada at 10 pm on the overnight train to Valencia and since all the couchette beds were booked, I had to sleep on the regular seats. This train was so uncomfortable. Try getting sleep while sitting in a stiff chair with all the lights on and tons of people making noise, talking, moving about to get off at their stops and at one point a woman sat next to me with her crying baby. I barely slept at all and my ...

... bike and a trailer on which he carries a boat and a kite!!! Some days he puts all luguage, himself and the bike on the boat and floats to a next destination!!! Maybe we will meet again as we where heading both to direction Valencia from Barcelona, but Jurgen will travel a part with his boat! He has a weblog with video's! www.derkober.blogspot.com <br><br>Besides cycling,traveling and meeting other crazy travelers we have a new ...

... qui chante à mes oreilles!!<br>Exposition de Sorolla, artiste peintre espagnol natif de Valence. Il a décrit l'espagne du début du XXe siècle sur d'immenses fresques. Isabel est enchantée de me faire découvrir sa ville et les trésors dont elle regorge. Mais mon besoin de liberté recommence à se faire sentir.. l'envie de continuer la route reprend le dessus!<br>

Este era nuestro recorrido, como ireis comprobando sufrirá (disfrutará :P) cambios, hay ciudades que no teniamos previstas que luego incluimos y viceversa.<br>Podría poner el recorrido final, sí, pero...<br><br>Ruta con los días:<br> <br>16sept: valencia - frankfurt hahn - tren a frankfurt mein y coger tren nocturno a praga<br>17sept: praga y tren nocturno a budapest<br>18sept: budapest<br>19sept: budapest <br>20sept: viena<br>21sept ...

Today I arrived in Spain- I"m jetlagged- and feel like I'm going to fighting off a cold for the first few days here. <br><br>Long trip here! Both lay overs were 5 hours which really added to the trip. I slept on the second and third flight- (Almost missed the last one from Madrid to Valencia because of a nap I took)- Luckily I arrived with no major problems.<br><br>I've gotten settled into my new place. I have two roommates, Simon and ...

The Fitzie´s have gone, Juan has flown home and now I have time to blog about our roadtrip to Cullera. Cullera is a seaside town just south of Valencia on the Mediterrean coast of Spain. It mainly caters to Spanish and French tourists, but some of Juan´s family lives there yearround and are considered locals. We started our journey last Saturday. We rented 2 small cars and headed east towards Valencia. The central plains of Spain are not that spectacular along the modern ...

... to wrap things up. There were still plenty of whole tomatoes (a great commodity) to hurl (I nearly pulled the motherload and nailed the camera man up on a balcony -- instead the tomato whistled by his ear) but after another half an hour, it was all juice. At that point La Tomatina turned into La Comisetina and the street had turned into two sides hurling knotted up, juice-saturated t-shirts at each other. Somehow we managed to find ourselves in no-mans land before retreating to ...

... bags and freshening up ourselves, we all got back on the coach to explore Valencia. We were dropped off in the city center and Colin pointed out a few points of interest such as the Bull Ring, the basilica, and the tower. We walked over to the Basilica de la Virgen de los Desamparados. We had a look inside the cathedral which contained a cup which locals claim to be the Holy Grail. Not being too interested in religious ...