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Preview of Jmlcamacho’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: “Living la vida de Valencia” Entry: “Finally, we’ve made it to Valencia! This beautiful city has welcomed us oh so much! The day we got here, was incredibly chill. Everyone got introduced to their apartments and then basically had the rest of the day to relax, catch up on reading, or go to the beach, like I did. Since the apt I am staying at is a 5 min walk from the beach, I dropped all my things off, changed into my bathing suit and ran down to the beach within the hour of arriving. In my mind, this was how Valencia is supposed to be, days of chilling on the beach and sleeping, ohh and class, of course. At the end of the day, some of the girls from the other apartment came over and everyone just chilled out. The next day was our introduction to Valencia, we were brought around the city by a tour guide and learned about how really old Valencia was. It was founded by the Romans in the time before Christ! We explored some of the oldest buildings and some famous spots in Valencia. We even saw the Holy Grail, which was sweet. After the tour, we found a restaurant in the alleys of Valencia and got the Meal del dia. THE GREATEST INVENTION EVER! the meal is a set price in euros for a drink, 2 (basically for me) entrees, dessert, and bread. seriously freaking awesome …

Preview of Constantinople’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: “Valencia” Entry: “I’m getting very lazing in updating this.. its party because its feels a bit indulgent telling everyone once a week or so about all the fun things ive been doing and partly because its very hard to put into words exactly how much fun and the amazing people ive met and places ive been to. I said good bye to kath and kate and hopped on a bus to Cordoba.. which is a small city once ruled by the moors and then re-captured by the spanish. The outskirts of the city are not really so nice – lots of low rise apartment buildings, but the centre of the town, the “old town” is really interesting… typical eurpean style with lots of winding streets the are fun to get lost in. The main sight in Cordoba is the cathedral, which is a huge mosque build around 900 years ago with a cathedral built in the centre. Its hard to describe but really interesting seeing the two styles and religions mixed together (www.kleekaemper.com I have included some pictures from while I was in Morocco (you may have noticed) and will gradually try and put more on as I go… I just dont carry the CDs and cables with me when I walk around! Theres also a nice river on the southern side of the city with an old roman bride spanning it. I met an american student and a guy from …

Preview of Marziadcc’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: “Tour of valencia” Entry: “Valencia… well i’ve been planning to come to Spain since middle school and after many years finally here i was.. I started sight seeing from the most moden part of the city with the City of the Arts and the Sciences. wonderful architecture and particular curves hits the eye at the first sight… with the hemisferic, museum of the sciences, the palaces of the arts and oceanografico it sure has many things to say. From the Plaza de Toros where my house was, the first sight that greets the eye is the impressive Bullring. Build in the mid 19th century it sure was a reminder of the Colosseum. the station is a treasure itself. Most of the deco inside were all Valencian modernist with the facade with few gothic elements. walking down the Av. del Marques de Sotelo one speedily finds himself to the Square of Ayuntamento. The buildings are breathtaking..classic lines of the newly renovated facades. on the left there’s the City hall, Ayuntamento, sculputres of the Benlliure, with a clear clock tower. not only is it eye catching but the building next to it, marked by the mark of the Venice Lion makes it a perfect monument to quite a mixture of architecture style through the plaza. in the plaza in fact other beautiful buildins are like the …

Preview of Tavini’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” Entry: “After spending a long time in Southern Spain, coming to Valencia feels like going to a different country. We had to take a night train from Granada which left halfway through to European championship final game, when Spain beat Germany to take the cup, so unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately?), we missed out on the ensuing mayhem which were the celebrations in the streets of all Spanish towns. We woke up in a pretty modern city where the look of the place is different from southern Spain, the language spoken is differen (Catalan), and people even act differently: it really is hard to believe you´re in the same country. We got here very early in the morning, and had to check our bags in the rain station lockers, because the grumpy hostel manager refused to let us in on the premise that we had not gotten to the hostel within its opening hours. So we did our sight-seeing between 6am and about 3pm and finally checked into the hostel, which had an excellent location and clean bedrooms. Unfortunately, we suspect the manager/owner to be related to the fascist dictator Franco, because he had plastered signs everywhere about such rules he had concocted such as no food or drinks in the rooms, no walking around barefoot, no loud …

Preview of Jeffanddana’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, Spain Entry Title: “Valencia on foot” Entry: “Today we spent the day exploring the old town of Valencia. We started off by heading to the Mercado, which is the market. I enjoyed this market much more than the one in Barcelona. It was much roomier and everything was open. We picked up a baguette for breakfast and had an espresso at one of the market stalls. Across from the market, we went to the La Lonja de la Sedi which was a silk exchange house. Next, we had to take care of a little bit of business. We walked over to the bus station and picked up our tickets to Madrid for tomorrow. The station was easy to find again and buying the tickets was a breeze. We then wandered to the one of the old gates of the city. It was impressive. It would have been amazing to see the wall in all of its glory. Then we continued through a couple plazas and ended up at the Cathedral which houses the Holy Grail, which is the cup used in the Last Supper. For those who think that this can’t be true – I Googled it and all historians agree that this is it. Pretty neat. After touring the church, we headed to another plaza for a drink and a rest and then continued on for lunch, which was again huge. A siesta was much needed after eating. For dinner, we wandered the streets and settled upon a cute …

Preview of Sharm’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: “Valencia” Entry: “We arrived after a five hour drive from Barcelona in Valencia, easily finding tourist information to once again get directions to out hostel. We stopped for a quick lunch consisting of packed bread and jam, given our tight Spanish budgets! We found Homebackpackers in what can be described as as the dodgey area of town and became a little concerned when the hostel staff told us that that if we encountered strange homeless men we should just give them 50 cents for our own peace of mind…not such a great start! We settled into our 14 bed dorm (slightly difficult to deal with at this stage in the trip) and discovered our pleasant unisex bathrooms shared between the whole floor. On the upside the hostel had a massive kitchen and roof terrace that kept us going through the next four days. On our first full day we decided to cover the sight seeing, so ventured into town and came across some cute markets and then headed onto Plaza Reine where we found the main Cathedral, the home of the Holy Grail. Here we spent our first Euro on sight seeing in Spain. After a tour through the Cathedral we entered the chapel of the Holy Grail (the chalise believed to have been used by Jesus at the Last Supper.) Given it was only mid afternoon and sight seeing was …

Preview of Youngt’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: “My first bullfight” Entry: “**PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU HAVE A BIG PROBLEM WITH ANIMAL CRUELTY THEN PERHAPS YOU SHOULD SKIP THIS ENTRY AND GO ON TO HAPPIER THINGS** The matador approached the bull, his sword outstretched. With a lunge (his second try) he slipped his sword through the ribcage of the bull and into his heart. The bull looked dazed and confused. He took two steps, looked to his left, and then vomited blood. The crowd collectively gasped and Ashley covered her eyes. “Is it over,” she asked? “No,” I replied as the bull vomited once, twice more before finally toppling over. I guess what you read about instantaneous death for the bull isn’t always the case. *** I took Ashley to see the mascleta this morning. The Mr. Pirotecnic guy was particularly talented today, and decided to synchronize his firecracker explosions to the tune of Beethoven’s 9th. It was pretty special. I had gone to get bullfighting tickets for the two of us about a week earlier. The big fights were filling up fast. There were bullfights the entire week of Fallas. There would be another week in May but bullfights were more or less regulated to special occasions in Valencia. There was actually a strong anti-bullfighting sentiment in Spanish government and it seems likely that this …