Day 29 - Valencia (Museums)

Sundays are perfect for going through museums, because most of them are for free ✌️
So we took that chance and while we are still here in Valencia for the last few days, we came to see the few places we haven't visited yet. 
We started with Silk Exchange, which our guide from the few days ago suggested to visit. 
La Almoina was ruins from old roman Valencia. It was quite amazing how something can still be found from between 1-9 centuries 😳 they only discovered it 10-15 years ago 👍🏻 worth a visit definitely. 
That's museums done for Valencia 😊 already need to start planning where we go next.

Portas Serranas

Day 27/28 - Valencia

Lazy days in Valencia with not much to say. Just enjoying the food, cafes, restaurants and beach!

4 weeks completed since we left home, which feels like a lifetime away. We're still not even half way (in terms of miles) in our trip and still quite far
from my hometown in the South of Portugal.

Day 26 - Science museum and Oceanographic

14/7/2016

Today we spent all day in Oceanographic and science museum. It was an awesome experience. Aquarium so big it took us like 4hours to walk through it. We saw everything from the sea world, except dolphin show 😳which only started later. 
After that we were starving so we went for big lunch. Really big all you can eat lunch... Just to get energy for another 3-4 hour tour through science museum.
I can't even describe everything, but you could try all sorts of things starting from light illusions to playing a game where you move a ball with your mind. How cool is that. 😂
In the end we have spent over 8 hours between two museums. 🙈 
So tired now, I can't even write anything that make sense so I will just add pics ✌️

Day 25 - Facebook page

It is always a huge problem to upload pictures and create blog posts so we've decided to create a facebook page to upload pics and short updates as it is a lot easier to do it from the phone and better for our families/friends to follow (which is the purpose of this blog), although we will still carry on with the blog!

https://www.facebook.com/the2vvanderers

Day 25 - Valencia (walking tour)

Today we decided to do a walking tour, starting at 10:30am in Valencia city center. Lazy Laima took ages to leave the bed and had to run all the way from metro station until the meeting point making it just on time. Surprisingly, there was only 4 persons in the tour (including the 2 of us) and it was almost like a private tour.

It was very interesting to understand how the city was born and the influence of the different occupations during the centuries. Muslims, Romans, Barbarians, etc.. all left their marks in the city, and it's still possible to see the different layers through the old town.

We also tried Horchata during the tour, a Valencian typical drink made from a special type of nut only grown here (they say), sugar and water. It is not bad, refreshing which is nice in this weather but probably not something I would have again.

trying horchata

We finished the tour in Palacio del Marques de Dos Aguas,  an amazing building still very well preserved showing the luxury in which the nobelty lived during those ages. You can walk through each room and imagine how would it be to live in such a magnifique place. There's also the largest ceramic collection in Spain inside, but the building itself was the most impressive

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Today the weather was perfect to walk around the city, some clouds and around 27 degrees made a perfect walk enjoying the city. Of course 27 degrees was enough for Laima to be cold and wishing to have long sleeve! 

Laima asking for trousers and long sleeve because it was too cold...

Days 22/23/24 - Valencia

After 3 weeks on the road we arrived at Valencia, where we are staying at friends house until 19/7. It was a nice feeling to take a nap in sofa watching tv after all this time...

Valencia has been a very positive surprise with amazing buildings, stunning architecture and great atmosphere on the streets. The weather has been nice, sometimes too hot during the day but at night it's just perfect.

These days have been more quiet for us than the past 3 weeks, trying to recharge our batteries, doing some walk through the city center, shopping, eating out and sleeping more than usual.

The city of arts and science seems amazing, incredible buildings but we have not been in the museum/oceanographic yet. We are planning to visit it later on.

Yesterday we went to the beach, it was veryyy busy as a typical city beach will be in middle of July, but the water was like tea. Sooo good! :D The night ended watching The Troupers (ABBA covers) in the Palau de la Musica.

Day 21 - Benicassim

view from our home!

Today we completed 3 weeks on the road with Shelly. 4 countries (Uk, France, Switzerland and Spain), more than 2000km and many cities/towns/villages visited.

Yesterday at night for the first time I had problems in sleeping because it was too hot, even with our "bedroom" window open it felt like there was no air outside. Also being parked in the middle of Salou we could not have all the windows open.

This morning started with some exercise to burn all the sweets that Laima is eating here (chocolats, ice creams, cookies). We did some running near the beach, pull ups (or i tried at least) and then go swim in the ocean. Perfect start of the day for me!

After breakfast we just left Salou to Benicassim, driving for 2 hours and arriving at lunch time. The all afternoon was spent in the beach, the water temperaure is just amazing and this beach was surprisingly quiet and nice.

Still managed to have time and energy to go for a bike ride (mtb) in the mountains near where we ate staying. It's an area called Desierto de Las Palmas, and it truly seems like a desert. It was already after 7pm and my gps was still showing above 30 degrees.

Now enjoying a dinner outside with a great mountain view behind!