Preview of Amygz’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain and Canary Islands Entry Title: “Valencia Valencia Valencia” Entry: “The flight to Valencia from Madrid was only 1 ½ hours, we spent longer sitting at the airport waiting for our flight than we did actually on the flight! We arrived nice and early — 7.30am and were greeted by some cooler weather — think it was low 30’s but was a humid kind of heat but at least we weren’t sweating at that time of morning. We caught the metro into town — surrounded by aussies and kiwis! After a small dilemma about which direction to head from the metro exit (me saying we go right and Scott saying we go left — so we go left for about 10 -15 mins until Scott then says I never said this is the right way to go!! So we turned around and went back the other way towards the hotel… stopping along the way at a café along the way for some yummy and cheap breakfast — again the language barrier caused difficulty but we pointed to the menu and got what we had ordered this time. After checking in and showering we headed out to check out Valencia and all it had to offer, the temperature had climbed a little and it was warming up! We walked 10 mins into the city centre from our hotel and stopped at the information centre to pick up some maps then wandered the first entry point of the city — it was like …

Preview of Chunhin’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain Entry Title: “Oranges??” Entry: “Valencia is so pretty…=PI really loved just walking down the streets and admiring all the buildings and unlike massive, hectic Madrid, Valencia is much more relaxed. We didn’t get up to much in this city, mainly because there wasn’t much to do apart from wandering the streets and seeing all their churches and buildings. The Cathedral in Valencia apparently held the holy grail but when I had a look it was just a nice altar…maybe I’m missing something =P. The main plaza, Plaça de l’Ajuntament in Valencia was quite impressive and the walkways were tilled with marble! Seems like this used to be a rich city =P. The placa del Virgen near where we stayed was also very pretty and the fountain constantly covered by pigeons haha, seems like it’s quite the place to hang out…the whole square was teeming with people at 12 am one night and we even saw a group of fixies amassing in the square XD. The one thing to do in Valencia I guess is to go to the Arts and Science Museum Man that place was a lot of fun, unfortunately we only got 2 hours in there so we had to rush through a lot. But definitely worth it! The entire place is interactive and you can do all sorts of cool stuff…testing out a home of the future, measuring your jumping force, playing …

Preview of Kcassaro’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain Entry Title: “The America’s Cup Race, Valencia, Spain” Entry: “We made it to Valencia after driving from Barcelona on the day of our arrival back into Europe. Here’s the plan: Our friend from Ibiza, Salvatore, has arranged for us to stay in a “Casa Rural” in the town of Campbell, which is inland from the beachtown of Denia, where he will meet us at the port. The town of Campell is barely on any map and is in a remote mountain overlooking Denia. Steve and I are the oldest people here. It is a sad story because the young people here move away to find more opportunity, leaving the fate of this town at risk. Anyway, why someone would renovate a country home in this town is beyond me but the results were fantastic. The Casa Rurale Ca Clara has been redone by a very talented designer where nothing was missed. It is gorgeous. He invites 2 of his lawyer friends to attend as well- Maurizio and Vincente. We plan on spending the weekend together at Ca Clara and going to Valencia where they have arranged for a boat to take us out to view the second race of the finale between the Swiss defenders, Alinghi and the New Zealand contenders, Kiwi. We meet the guys on Friday night at the port, the first day of a 3 day weekend celebrating the feast of Sant Joan( Saint John). Salvatore keeps …

Preview of Giovanna’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain Entry Title: “Americas cup – Valencia” Entry: “Then on to Valencia the next day where we were meeting the flatmates, but our ferry had sold out as we were so late in arriving to book it so we had to take another ferry somewhere else and bus down, which left late, then the bus/boat both took an extra hour so we didn’t arrive there until 11pm, and all our flatmates were leaving at 6am so we had a drink with them in town and that was about it! Valencia was really nice and warm also – the first day we headed out to the Americas cup village and had a look around while nothing was happening, and had a look around the science buildings which were really funky We were all pretty shattered that night so didn’t get up to anything. The next day they was racing, so we headed back out and watched the boat go out, if we lost today’s race it would all be over, and unfortunately we did by 1 second! We need to get the bus by 4 to get to Barcelona so didn’t stuck around on to Barcelona Barcelona was ok, I had been there before with Mum but neither of the boys had been, it was raining so that wasn’t good, I followed the boys around for a bit but to the Rambla, Guids park, and the sig familia then I gave up and went back for a sleep as I had a headache, the boys went to the football stadium …

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Valencia, Spain by TravelPod blogger Kdtravels titled “Valencia Fallas”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Kdtravels’s travel blog entry: “Dear All, Things have been going well in Spain. Last week was we had our first long break which was great and provided a much needed rest from classes. School is very busy which has contributed to the lack of email updates on my end. My friend Lisa visted for the entire week which was great, and another friend, Kathleen, joined us for the second part. On Saturday, March 14th, I picked Lisa up from the Airport and we went straight to the car rental place where we picked up “Daisy”, a small but tough little blue Ford car…. then hit the road to experience some European driving. I took off a little slow, trying to remember how to drive a manual car… and quickly got to experience European driving once more, lots of fun! Very few rules in Spain… the lanes kindof merge together in the towns… and people sorta stop for red lights but if the coast is clear you can go ahead… It’s the Spanish way I suppose We went to Murcia, then Cordoba, and passed through Jaen on the way home. The country side was beautiful. Daisy didn’t have an antenna so the first part was in silence… but we quickly changed that by meeting some African guys in a little random town in a little pub that sold us some burned Cds (they had quite the selection!!)… and haggled them down from the 3 for 7.50E …

Preview of Tbassplayer’s blog entry at TravelPod. Read the full entry here: www.travelpod.com This preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Trip to: Valencia, Spain Title: “Valencia, Spain” Entry preview: “Still day 11 We arrived in Valencia at mid day with no reservations. The old town is surrounded by a dried-up river bed that has been converted into a large park. We stayed for 3 days in Valencia and never did leave old town. There is plenty to do in the center of the city. We realized almost as we were on the way there that Valencia was preparing for it’s biggest annual party “Las Fallas” this is like Carnival to Rio or Paddy’s day to Ireland. All of the neighborhoods in the city decorate …” Read and see more at: www.travelpod.com Photos from this trip: 1. “Bull fight matadors” 2. “Bull fight1″ 3. “Bull fight2″ 4. “Bull fight3″ 5. “Bull fight4″ 6. “Bull fight5″ 7. “Bull ring” 8. “Church” 9. “Church dome” 10. “Church dome close-up” 11. “Church inside” 12. “Golden Precessional” 13. “Preparing for Las Fallas” 14. “Shrine of the holy grail” 15. “Street decoration” 16. “Street decoration2″ 17. “The holy grail” See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Valencia, Spain and Canary Islands by TravelPod blogger Travelingdiva titled “Barcelona and Valencia”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Travelingdiva’s travel blog entry: “What a gorgeous day Thursday was in Barcelona! The sun was shining and it was warm enough that I didn’t need a scarf or toque. I decided to head to the water. I left my bags with Carlos and went to Port Vell to see the sun sparkling on the sea. The marina is surrounded by beautiful palm trees and filled with sailboats to make a pleasing sight. Once I had taken it all in I headed for the near by Santa Maria cathedral. Finally a sight with no entrance fee! Afterward I wandered towards the metro, stopping in to see the market stalls in front of the Catedral I visited yesterday. This time of year the locals are celebrating Fira de Santa Llúcia and the market is the main part of that celebration. It isn’t your typical Christmas market though. They do have some trees and some candy and good food, but most of the stalls are selling models of the nativity scene. You can buy all sorts of things to go in and around your nativity scene. Religious figures, waterfalls, trees, animals … you name it, there is a model of it for sale in this market. It was really interesting and some of the work is gorgeous. I particularly like the powered windmills and waterfalls. Finally I got on the metro and went to see Gaudi’s Park Güell. By now I was very short on time …