Hotel Melia Rey Don Jaime Valencia

... managed to screw up public transportation just enough one day to get in a good 6-7km of walking in. Maybe that was to burn some of our newly accumulated calories? We spent much time at the incredible Cuidad de las Artes y Ciencias at their Oceanografic attraction. I annoyed Will all day long with comments like "this is so San Diego. Sea World has this. Valencia IS San Diego." But the actual architecture of Ciudad de las Artes y ...

Went to Valencia for 5 days, one day of which we spent out in Bunol for La Tomatina- great fun! Thousands of people crowd into this tiny town to have a massive tomato fight for one hour on the last wedensday of every month. Not the kind of thing you'd do again but am really glad I done it- crazy!
Valencia itself was lovely- very clean and well kept and the locals were especially friendly ...

... 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 ...

... Our night was capped off by a lovely dinner we prepared, and a pub crawl.

The next morning we revisited a church were the Holy Grail was said to be. Thats right folks I said it, the Holy Grail! It is the only grail recognized by the vatican as THE one. It was pretty impressive, and I must say it did look holy.

The next day my new friends Cassandra and Annelise were off to Madrid.

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Our train to Barcelona was at 5pm but was delayed so we had a bit of a wait in the ElStacion De Nord. I didn’t mind the 3 hour train ride north, it was quite comfy and we travelled up the coast so it was a scenic train ride.

We had a bit of a mission to find the hostel though, there were closures on the metro so we had to take a replacement bus, but we got there in the end – about 11pm and settled into our new accommodation – a hostel!

The cold was still with me, but we had a reasonably easy day sat on the bus, so it wasn't too bad. When we arrived in Valencia, we had a couple of hours to look around on our own, so we went and promptly got lost. However, if you're going to get lost, the old town in Valencia is the place to do it. Around every corner was an old church converted into a free ...

... passing a VERY slow vehicle...it seemed like they'd been fallowing us for quite a bit. And the cannabis leaves didnt help the situation either....Lilli hid them in her trousers. Marko and Lilli were arguing with officers more than half an hour trying explain that we'r stupid turists but the reaction they got it was obvious it wasnt the first time stupid turists were trapped. So much about the beauty of Xcativa. As we didnt agree to pay the fine 168€ at once they arrested our car ...

... is how I am with Spanish). Something I heard repeatedly was that the regions in Spain are very different from each other. http://www.top-tour-of-spain.com/Map-of -Regions-of-Spain.html There were a number of students from the northern part of the region Castile and Leon. And they all told me that the weather there is much cooler and they didn't like the heat in Valencia as much as I did, they aren't used to it. Also, they all said the ...

... towns (amalfi, positano, etc...) so basically you just do hikes, beach (if the weather's good), tours, etc... Ahh yeah, we didn't realize that it would be like 40 degrees the entire time we were there in addition to raining half the time. We each brought 1 sweater each so we ended up wearing basically the same outfit for the whole 10 days. Gross but what can you do? Let's just call them our "uniforms." So yeah, Spring break was basically a family vacation. We stayed at ...

... especially the ones in Spanish, that I had with various Europeans during my stay here was the highlight of this whole experience. We're all so different, and the perspectives cause your mind to shift as you look at the world from, literally, a different place. In Mobile Robots I talked with Laurence and we tried to stay awake. She, with myself in tow, talked to the professor about finishing the practicas and was rewarded with a copy of Matlab. This ...