Dancing through Life - Wicked

Valencia



We bussed to Valencia after Barcelona because we both knew people here but Mark, my friend from Brazil was out of town, and Eilis´friend was also mia, but we found plenty to do. After we dropped off our stuff we went grocery shopping and then cooked delicious pasta at the hostel. We then had our complementary beers at the hostel and met these Irish boys who actually live in Valencia. Andy and Colim made us attempt to play pool, we were aweful, but it was fun. We talked about things to do and what to see. We then went out to a bar and after much dancing (see photos in slideshow) we had to head home.



The next day I had a cold, but we wouldn´t let that stop us. We cooked the rest of our spaggetti for lunch (we slept that late becase we bought earplugs and finally slept through the night, and well through the following morning). Colim had said he would show us around town on bikes if we wanted but unfortunatly he no longer could so we decided to rent bikes on our own. Well... after three trips to the bike shop (20 minute walk there mind you) we finally got our bikes yay! I also went into the church in Valencia that has the "real Holy Grail". It was really cool and beautiful. We biked through the old river bed park. Valencia had a river that went right through the city, in the fifties it flooded so bad that they decided to change the river to go around the city and made the old river bed a huge park! It was so neat to bike through with all the old bridges to go under. We biked by the beautiful art science buildings that have the largest aquarium in europe, museums, and imax all very cool. We went to the beach and had a great time.


The last day we biked around again and went to the big market, and to one of the old city gates, where we climbed to the top and looked out at all of valencia. We also got to meet Mark for lunch! I was so excited to see him! We talked and got to catch up a little before we headed back to the hostels to get our bags. We then tried to get the bus back to the main bus station to head for Madrid and our hostel lady gave us the wrong advice... After an hour and a half, and seeing the whole city of valencia, twice, we got to the bus station and got the last tickets for the 530 bus with 10 minutes to spare!