Hotel Valencia Center

petit déjeuner de reine avec du vrai pain aux graines..mmiamm! je roule toute la matinée dans les vergers, au travers des cultures de courgettes, de poivrons, de mandarines, d'olives.. odeurs du sud qui apaisent l'âme... de plus en plus envie d'écrire, pour me souvenir de tout ce que je vis... impression d'être en train de gratter ma coquille...<br>

... the open pockets.<br><br>We lapped it up. <br><br>On our entry to the L'Oceanographic we were blessed with a simple, but effective entreprenual idea: the 10 year old local 'selling' buy one/get one free tickets, that actually come FREE from McDonalds, but we didn't have any (of course). So we paid half price at the gate, gave him some cash as commission, and everyone walked away happy. That boy will go far.<br><br>If you've been to any Seaworld complex, then this ...

... around Castellon to see its sites, and finding a tree that is EXACTLY 100 years older than me. I have the picture to prove it.)<br>7. Return home and have a snack (a.k.a. ice cream).<br>8. Eat dinner.<br>9. Watch TV.*<br>10. Go to bed around 12:30.<br><br>Never before have I had such a relaxing week. It was great!<br><br>*One night instead of watching TV, we went to an encierro. This is basically a running of the bulls for very ...

Back to Denia, then sadly started heading north. Turned off at random about 17:00 and followed signs uphill (12%) to Segorbe municipal campsite only to find it closed. <br><br>Then discovered we had a puncture! Called Saga roadside assistance and with help fom another kind spaniard gave directions ...

... hashbrowns, Rose - juice and fruit salad. I attempted to made the pancakes from scratch. They weren't as good as my dad's but still delicious... probably because of the Aunt Jamima's we had imported from America. Eggs were phenomenal ha ha if I say so myself. We burnt the bacon which in turn burned our eyes from the smoke but the hash browns and fruit salad were both great. Rose brought back some of her favorite movies so we ...

... good as well. After a couple of hours of sun, the clouds came in. It was so peculiar! One one side there was sun and the other, dark clouds, wind, and a bit of thunder! So I quickly retreated back to flat with the dry (and semi-wet) clothes in hand. Next, dishes and hand-washable clothes. Now I am sitting in bed and writing this (obviously). Plans for tonight... well, if Ally and Rose get back we'll probably make some dinner and watch a movie. Ally should be flying in from Edinburgh and Rose ...

... to in Spain was the schedule. Everything closes down from about 2 to 4:30-5:00ish for lunch and siesta. No stores are open at all. Then they reopen until about 8. You can't do anything during siesta, it is so crazy. Then you eat dinner at about 9-9:30ish and then go out and party until early morning. Definitely not my kind of lifestyle. I thought it was annoying in France that most things close from 12-2, but now I realize it is ...

... the ball passed the midline onto the German side, everyone freaked always thinking it was going to mean a goal. Gloria and I in the middle of the game. Even back in the apartment I could hear the whole city erupting in cheers and screams every 5 minutes. in the end, Spain won! The city erupted again. I kinda wished I'd been out in the city instead of in the apartment. But, if I'd been back in the states, I wouldn't have ...

... though, it usually charges the man on horseback and SLAMS into the horse at full speed attempting to gore it. The horse and rider are protected with a layer of armor to protect it from the bull and the horse is blindfolded so it doesn't see the bull coming. This is what seemed so strange to me. The horses, though blindfolded, just stood there and let the bull root its horns underneath it, attempting to disembowel it (until the 1900's there was no protection for ...

... sea a couple kilometers). The whole thing is pretty well developed with bike trails, running trails, trees, fountains, play parks for kids, and even a mega-playground consisting of a giant Gulliver (Gulliver's Travels) made with slides built into him for kids to play on. We stopped for an hour at what must be the largest shopping mall I've ever been to. The department store occupied 7 floors on one side and 4 on the ...