Three hour train journey from Valencia to Barcelona - all was normal. We noticed a few stops out of Barcelona that there were police at one of the stops and a crowd of what looked like students, but didn't think anything of it. When we got to the the Barcelona train station, we hopped off... Continue Reading →
Our final tour in Valencia was to the City of Arts & Sciences. Valencia used to have a river running through the centre that used to flood all the time and after the last time in the 1950s they decided to divert the river around the city (flooding rivers seem to be a theme in... Continue Reading →
Today, as the title of today's blog suggests - we were going to learn to make paella.... hopefully better than the one we had yesterday! We walked from the hotel through the old town to get to the school and passed some lovely buildings and parks along the way... First we had to have a... Continue Reading →
This was the carpet that we walked on between the lift and our room in our Madrid hotel - it took 130 steps - Me Jenny counted (every time). Lucky it was pretty carpet..... Then we hit the train station ready to head east(ish) to the coast - to Valencia. I've got to say -... Continue Reading →