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This And That
We had a day of shopping and wandering the streets, once again, in Old Town with a lovely lunch at a sidewalk cafe. Joey and I ate healthily and then there was Jocelyn! The pictures say it all. We found new shops to wander into including all kinds of basketry shops making everything in ratan…
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Fans Plus Three
I left off from my last blog just as we were headed out the door for the event that I wrote about a week ago that we bought tickets for. We were off to a soccer game at the Mestalla Stadium where the Valencia FC team were playing the Alaves, two Spanish teams in the same…
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Trip Within a Trip
No, we weren’t run over by a crazy driver, kidnapped or beamed up to an alien ship. We simply took a mini vacation from our vacation and headed to Mallorca, a small island about one hour east of Valencia. The night before leaving, Jocelyn went on line to check us in only to discover that…
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Oceans Alive
We had an amazing day today at the Oceanographic! Opened in 2002, the aquarium is the largest one in Europe housing thousands of types of fish and sea mammals as well as birds. Two 30 meter and 70 meter long, clear domed tunnels let us feel like we were in the tanks with the sharks, eels and…
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The Wedding Crashers
I have always loved pouring over maps, following with my finger the many streets and avenues of a city, finding interesting places that I might like to visit. Last night the three of us did just that and made a plan to visit some of the places we found. Our first stop this morning was…
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Sand and Sun
We have often commented on how tired we are at the end of the day and how little we did all day. We had another one of those today as we lolled on the beach from late morning until late afternoon, hardly getting up off our chairs except to people watch, each lunch and, for…
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Jocelyn’s 1st Days
Jocelyn has been to Spain many times but not to Valencia so the first outing we took her on yesterday was to the old part of town to wander the streets and shop. There were so many people out and about and Joey thought maybe it was because the weather had finally settled into more…
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We Have a Winner!
The metro and bus system in Valencia is amazing and makes getting around the city easy and convenient. Too bad buying the metro and bus tickets isn’t! Yesterday we had to go to the airport to pick up my friend Jocelyn who was flying in from Toronto to join us for two weeks. “A piece…
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There’s One in Every Group
When we first arrived in Valencia, we purchased a group tour so, at some point, we would get out of the city for a change of scenery. Meeting downtown in the town hall square, we had time for a quick coffee and goodie before we were introduced to our tour guide for the day and…
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All Things Scientific
Valencia is a city of diverse architecture. The oldest part of the city is dotted with slightly decaying brick buildings, spectacular churches with beautifully carved arches and turrets, tiny shops with hand carved wooden doors of every size and shape and ancient walls that at one time kept back the walls of the Turia River.…
