Back in Toledo, I am in an Art Class that studies the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian architecture around Toledo. The class is one day a week with a morning session where we walk around the city to the various monuments and an afternoon lecture. A lot of the churches are really cool like the one below named San Juan de los Reyes.
This last weekend (Feb 24-26) a group of about 30 booked it out of school after a week of midterms and traveled south to Valencia on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. We flew Ryan Air, the most uncomfortable annoying airline of all time, luckily is was only a 45min flight. We arrived in Valencia at 8:45 PM and began the search for our hostel. That thing about men never wanting to stop and ask for directions is 100% true every time.
This hostel is part of a chain called The Purple Nest
Since we arrived too late to site see, we all went out for Tapas at various places and then out for a friend's 21st.
Palm Trees and hot sunny weather :)
I can't figure out how to rotate pictures, sorry!
Every city I travel to is better than the last one. Valencia is definitely my favorite so far!
It has an area of 4 or five giant buildings with crazy futuristic architecture. They are art centers, museums, and the aquarium.
The aquarium here is the largest aquarium in all of europe being indoor and outdoor. I have a picture of an eel and a seahorse and then my camera died.
THE BEACH :D Words cannot describe how much I love the beach.
Our group isn't in this picture, but they weren't hard to find. The Americans were the only one wearing swim suits or even considering getting in the water. Apparently it's still "winter" there... I think that they should google "Minnesota winter". When it's 70 degrees and sunny us Minnesotans wear shorts and dresses, but here the locals were still wearing parkas.
One of the plates we ordered before we left.
We were all getting sick of seeing churches so we skipped out on the cathedral of Valencia, but here it is from the outside..
Valencia made their metro station pretty with sparkles! We took a 9pm flight home on Saturday. Metro, Plane, Metro, Metro, Bus Station, Cab--everytime...that part gets annoying.
Next up: Ibiza Island, Rome (with mom and aunt Tracy!!), Amsterdam, and Lisbon!
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