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| City of Arts and Science |
A whole month in Spain - what bliss! I think we have slowed right down - four months of travel will do that I guess - es muy despacio. However, its a very pleasurable slowness. We sleep late, eat late and go to bed even later.
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| It's a hard life...... |
Valencia is a very pleasant city - beautiful old buildings and castles and huge bridges with moats; a really pleasant beach (with full facilities………come on Perth); pretty parks and great restaurants.
We rented two apartment for a week each on different sides of the city. The first apartment was very cool - newly renovated - all floorboards and wooden beams. It had a fantastic Bali type shower and was very comfortable but didn't have air-conditioning.
The second apartment is much bigger - has 3 bedrooms - is very brightly painted (bit like our house) has a great kitchen, really good air-conditioning but no wifi. Also the lift doesn't work and its on the fourth floor (59 steps to be exact) and worst of all it has tiled floors - lovely and cool in the heat but there is a little child living upstairs - we have affectionately named him Chucky- who scampers up and down at 7am every morning - needless to say we hate Chucky!
We have discovered some great restaurants - including one in a very small square that we have frequented several times. Really innovative tapas - lots of cous cous - strangely enough!It's a pain not having internet but we have made friends with the owner of a cafe around the corner - where we have spent several hours drinking and surfing! She is our new best friend - her English is as good as our Spanish - we have great fun saying hello - ola as we are leaving.
Off to Barcelona tomorrow - staying with friends for five days and then we have rented an apartment again for 2 weeks. We also have some other friends living in Barcelona to catch up with. It will be interesting going back to that lovely city, as it's 3 years since we were last there, and see how it's changed or if we've changed.
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| Viva Valencia |
