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Valencia the Modernist
... further away from the centre of Valencia, including the vast array of modern architecture, the beach, and of course for Ryan, Valencia's football stadium. I am not the biggest fan of modern buildings, but I can appreciate their impressiveness. Some of them looked like something right out of Star Wars, while others were very streamlined and slick. In this same area is Europe's biggest aquarium. It appeared to be more like a Sea World inspired park, with ...
Adventures on the Coast
... drinking the local wine mixes, sunbathing, swimming in the now warm Med and soaking up the history. We spent our nights suffering in the unrelenting heat, in a beautifully decorated room with no airflow and no aircon. Helen even tried sleeping on the concrete floor.
Valencia is old. Not old like Egypt or China, but old enough to have old forts and moats and broken bits of a city wall. We visit a covered food market that's been running for something hundred years, ...
O Valencia
... for the next train some three hours later. It was easy enough to kill time in a cafeteria with free wifi and sufficient snacks. The train ride was as beautiful as I remember: for a good portion of the trip the Mediterranean coast was in plain view, occasionally disappearing behind some small mountains or desert-like plains. Three hours after our departure, we arrived in Valencia. Stepping off the train was like taking a brick to the face: a ...
Spanish Soccer and American Football
The last time I came to Spain I was lucky enough to watch my favorite team in the world, Real Madrid, play a La Liga game against the southern team of Seville. While a team filled with superstars, such as Zidane, Ronaldo, Figo, and Beckham, was not able to win, I was still able to learn a great amount about the enormous difference between a professional game of American football and a Spanish La Liga game. There are differences in the stadiums and atmosphere that create ...
Valencia
... relaxed, read, and tossed around an American football. Davis and I went for a long walk to the far end of the beach, and found an almost completely deserted area with the smoothest sand and an awesome view of the strip of restaurants as well as the ocean. We sat there for a while and just took it all in- something that I try to do increasingly on these trips so that it all doesn’t start to ...