What a fabulous weekend away! Our first trip without Maria Jose was to Valencia, Spain. Located in the center of Spain on the east coast, this was the perfect get-a-way! I experienced a hostel for the first time, got to swim in the Mediterranean, went to the largest aquarium in Europe, and climbed to the top of medieval towers. We began our trip to Valencia with a four hour bus ride in large comfy first-class-like seats. After arriving we successfully found our hostel, Indigo. With a cartoon-like character as the logo we knew we were in for a treat. Each wall is painted a different bright color and basically everything was in English! We stayed in large room with 4 sets of bunk beds and one single and had no problems throughout the weekend with the hostel. Our first night out we got caught in quite a large thunder storm, but still managed to enjoy ourselves in a new city. Thankfully, the next day was a perfect beach day. We spent the morning swimming, tanning and walking the beach!
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| La Playa - Mediterranean Sea |
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After enjoying a lovely day at the beach and having delicious paella (with rabbit!) we did some shopping and I made a few more Spanish purchases! While shopping we got to see some magnificent buildings, including la plaza de toros (where the bull fighting happens) and even the post office was photo-worthy! Near our hostel was one of the medieval towers. Three of us decided we had a little more energy and climbed to the top! I am so glad we did! We got to see all of Valencia, which was truly spectacular! That night we went on a pub crawl set up by the hostel and managed to get wrapped up in an British stag party!
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| Top of the tower - Jocelyn and me |
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Sunday was spent at the largest aquarium in Europe, which is part of el museo de artes y ciencias. The buildings themselves are breath-taking. The architecture is extremely modern and all the buildings are white and blue (hopefully the pictures will help my lackluster description). The aquarium itself was incredible, my favorite part was seeing the baby sea lions "rough-housing" with each other! We went through two tunnels of fish and entered a dome full of birds! An absolutely wonderful experience!
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| Baby Sea Lions |
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| El Museo de Artes y Ciencias |
Wow, sounds like quite the weekend. Was climbing to the top of the tower anything like St. Paul's Cathedral? Why were there birds in the aquarium? A dome of birds sounds a little scarey to me. I would take heights over birds any day!
ReplyDeleteIt looks just amazing.... I love reading about your adventures. Keep up the posts.
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