Vincci Lys Hotel Valencia

... Oh well, let's worry about that when I get there. For now, I'm still on vaccaciones and indulging my laziness.

So, some updates on the silly situations that cling to me like a magnet. Tuesday was a travel day. And boy do I hate travel days. I'd have to look up the definition to be sure, but I'm fairly certain I abhor them. Packing everything up, realizing you need the thing that's at the very bottom of the bag, wondering where you 'hid' your passport this ...

... Even the train station was decorative in this way. I constantly stopped to snap pictures of random buildings.
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 ...

... from the trees and grinded them in the thermomix!)
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cup oil (I used sunflower oil.)
2 ripe smashed bananas
1 cup of soy milk mixed with water (half/half)

First mix all dry ingredients and add the yeast (mixed with a bit of warm water). Mix in the smashed bananas. Add the soy milk and water. Mix in the sunflower oil. Then it goes in the oven for 30 to 50 minutes under 180 degrees Celsius ...

Este era nuestro recorrido, como ireis comprobando sufrirá (disfrutará :P) cambios, hay ciudades que no teniamos previstas que luego incluimos y viceversa.
Podría poner el recorrido final, sí, pero...

Ruta con los días:

16sept: valencia - frankfurt hahn - tren a frankfurt mein y coger tren nocturno a praga
17sept: praga y tren nocturno a budapest
18sept: budapest
19sept: budapest
20sept: viena
21sept ...

... be very familiar to you - the penguin complex, polar bears, strikingly colourful fish of the warm Pacific coast, the incredible, highly interative dolphin show and the underground carriageway that takes you through the tunnels of the fish tanks (sharks and all) - except this one, you can do school sleepovers ... sleeping with the sharks .... now that's a school trip!

The short walk down the road to the Science Museum was hot, and those pools looked so ...

... better than the situation in Spain. Anyway, so for our first lunch in Spain we got the famous Valencia paella. This is the specialty dish for the area. It is a dish with rice, vegetables, and either chicken and rabbit or seafood. You can only get it for lunch and on certain days of the week. It was delicious though. After lunch we walked around a bit and at about 6ish the girls wanted to go back. I wanted to stay and walk ...

... at all. A lot of people in the city jumped in the fountains around the city in celebration. I didn't think I'd ever get to sleep, but the noise died down around 11pm. However, I forgot about Spanish time. I fell asleep and was woken up by the revival of noise around 1am. Everyone out celebrating. Besides the fact that in general winning the Euro cup is a big deal, Spain nevers wins anything I've been told. This is ...

... with about 150 shops in the mall area. I got a laugh out of the fact that when we were in the floor labeled "B" for basement, there was another floor below that which contained all the clearance items. Get it? Bargain Basement! Now you know. We reached the end of the park around 2 and took some pictures of the well done architecture of the city's science museum. The building looks like a giant fish and the top fin ...

... streets I stumbled across a homemade mascleta which was pretty fun to watch. The entire street had been hung with pretty strings of multicolored fireworks. The group of people were in the middle of pushing a large parked van out of the line of fire. Once everything had been set up, the area was cleared and two ladies were given the honor of lighting the fuse after a short speech. I was pretty close to them and ...