Hotel Melia Valencia Palace

... completely forgot. I'm an idiot.<br><br>Gaby, I saw a flamenco show!!! It was AWESOME. I took like 10 videos so will show you them when I get back. And there are also lots of photos that I will post, too. The guy dancing was so animated, it was hysterical. But it wasn't supposed to be. I guess I'm culturally insensitive. But the music was incredible. I loved it. And then last night I went to a place with live jazz. The food was divine (photos coming) and I met up with 3 fun ...

... Even the train station was decorative in this way. I constantly stopped to snap pictures of random buildings. <br> The only thing not so appealing is that only the center of the city is beautiful the outside looks like a rundown modern area. In the center you have all the old cathedrals, a marvelous common marketplace open every day selling fresh fruits and vegetables and on sunday outside there are many tables selling cheap clothes and other random ...

In 6 days we cycled from Barcelona to Valencia. We followed the coastline, sometimes via a busy national road with lot's of trucks and sometimes we escaped this by taking other (almost deserted streets), posh promenades or small walking paths next to the sea. We passed many deserted cities, which will probably be a consumers paradise in summer. (everywhere they are still building more apartment flats, in spite of the "economical ...

... viena - salzburg <br>22sept: salzburg - hallstat - salzburg<br>23sept: salzburg - zurich tren nocturno <br>24sept: zürich - winterthur - schaffhaussen - rheinfall (cataratas rhin) - stein am rhein - zürich<br>25sept: zürich - lucerna - interlaken <br>26sept: interlaken - grindelwald <br>27sept: Grindelwald - interlaken - berna <br>28sept: berna - laussane - montreaux - fribourg <br>29sept: fribourg - basel - vuelo a alicante<br> <br>

Here's a little Spanish lesson&#8230;V&#8217;s are B&#8217;s and B&#8217;s are B&#8217;s. J&#8217;s are Haches&#8217;s and H&#8217;s are Hache&#8217;s. So Valencia is actually pronounced Balencia. Cool no? Si, es wery cool. But the air is still wery fricken hot!!<br><br> Today we got up a bit earlier. At this rate, by the time we reach Manchester, we should be getting up at 5am. We had our morning café and packed up the bikes to start ...

... in our case in the food store...but he was like an old buddy...smiling and waving "hola" already from distance. It would have been ironic...first telling them we r poor students with no money and now walking out of the store withs carts of beer and food... We didnt stay in that town for long after we the fine was payed and they released our car. Drove up to the castle but came down as fast also...rain and no suitable camping spot. So we took the direction towards south and sea... It was ...

... The central government helps to control different things in different regions. (For example, the central government might help with education and tourism in Galicia, but not in Valencia, where they met help with housing and agriculture). However, for the most part each regional government gets to control what happens inside the region. Each Autonomous Community, as they're called, has their own leader, government, legislature and Supreme ...

... hours. The chihuaua one liked to dance and when Katie took a nap on the floor she woke up to airport hobbit was doing a Jig in front of her face. Maybe he was trying to impress her or maybe he just felt like dancin' eitherway we'll probably never know. Who can truly understand the ways of the hobbit? I feel like i've talked a lot about hobbits in these entries but don't judge, if you were there you'd probably think the same. And i like hobbits. Okay, so after Katie was woken ...

... to finish the sangria. A shame! We walked back to the hotel - a car full of guys drove by and screamed something unintelligible. We guessed that they may have said "How much for a 'Fortune Cookie'"? <br><br>We passed by a table with one Spanish guy and 4 attractive Spanish senoritas (3 were VERY attractive). What's his secret? Is there a school I can attend to learn? Who do I pay? I'm prepared to sign up RIGHT THIS MINUTE!<br><br>Back at the ...

... home with them, listening to the three heroes repeat it over and over, garnishing it a little bit more with each retelling. After the testosterone of the capea this was almost too much for me. I was glad to finally get to bed, although to his credit Sam did thank Vincent and me with a hug before bed. I don't think I'll ever understand how something like that could have happened between two groups that didn't even understand each other. But I suppose perhaps that was exactly the issue.