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Exploring Valencia
Valencia thus far has been exactly what I had imagined; it is a cross between Seville and a larger city. To be perfectly honest, Valencia has intimidated me at just about every point in the past few days with its layout. I have felt inadequate of my navigation skills. With its labyrinth style roads one cannot help but get turned around and lost easily even with the help of a map, because of this I haven't been able to seen much of Valencia. I wish I had ...
La tomatina
... people. Made a full recovery right in time for the dump trucks to drop millions of tomatoes in the streets. Complete mayhem describes the ridiculousness of the crowd and how crazy they were getting. There was more pushing people mosh pit style then tomatoe throwing. Annie and I skipped that and headed down the street. Lost the crowd and got involved in an epic tomatoe ...
La Tomatina
... an overweight man wearing nothing more than shorts, pink bunny ears, and a large man-purse. As he ate, we sat and watched tourists with the Japanese flag painted on their faces, groups of men dressed in speedos or in flamenco dresses, multicolored mohawk wigs and other extravagant costumes that would soon be destroyed and thrown away.
At 9am in the main square, a tall greased pole with a ham hanging from the top of it was raised a mere few feet in front ...
These Tomatoes, They Burn My Eyes
... let's start this party early. We make our way back to the car, grab our passports, credit cars, all the important stuff and bring it to a public lock to store it for the night. At least our personal **** is safe, the car on the otherhand, well, who cares. That's what insurance is for.
On the way we meet a couple of British lads who got a two day pass from their wives to join in on the chaos. We tell them we are started things early and they decide to join us. So there we are ...
Knocking on Heaven's door - Montserrat
... statuette found in the mountains. It’s a 12th century carving of the virgin Mary with baby Jesus in her lap called La Moreneta, and after miracles started happening it became associated with the black Madonna.
Afterwards we are ready to shop at the large souvenir store that sells hundreds of black Madonna knick-knacks and religious charms. We purchase a couple CDs of ...