Big Adventures, Little World

That night we headed across the street to some of Mark and Sam’s Contiki friends hotel and had a few drinks before getting on the bus to head down to the port, where the Fanatics had organised a bar for everyone to go to. The bus didn’t end up going far enough so we had to walk the rest of the way and we didn’t really know where we were going. Luckily we found another guy on the Fanatics tour named Luke who was going there as well and seemed to know where he was going, so we made him our honorary tour leader and off we went. (He claimed he wasn’t too sure where it was either but that didn’t bother us). About half an hour later he got us where we wanted to be and we met up with Kate, Dung and Luke and we even found Ryan there as well. We stayed for a few hours and had a couple of drinks with everyone before deciding to call it a night and make our way back to the hotel for some much needed sleep.

The next morning was checkout time and off we went to meet up with Kate, Dung and Luke at their hotel, before we went to find our next hotel for our last night there. The hotel wasn’t far so we walked there, and on the way got to check out some crazy and spectacular buildings in the City of Arts and Science. The buildings were all built to welcome the 21^st century and are all very futuristic looking because of this, as well as each of the buildings being museums of one kind or another. After taking some photos and walking around the buildings we found the others and went off to find our next hotel, and stopping along the way for some breakfast.

When we arrived at the hotel we were offered an upgrade for €2.50 each which got us bigger rooms and a full buffet breakfast which was well worth it. After that it was off to the beach for a day of swimming and relaxing before heading out for dinner in town as a group before Mark, Sam and I made our way back to London and before Luke made his way back to Adelaide. We found a nice place in the Old City which was a 3 course meal for €13. Being in Spain, I had to try Paella, even if it wasn’t the freshest you can get. The food was all really good and we also had some beer and Agua de Valencia, meaning Water of Valencia, which is an alcoholic drink consisting of champagne, orange juice, vodka and gin. It is a very popular cocktail in Valencia and it is understandable as it is very delicious. After dinner there wasn’t much else we wanted to do other than head back to the hotel and relax. Unfortunately the metro we needed to take had stopped running for the night and we could only get some of the way to our hotel. It was only a few stops away so we walked the rest of the way using Google Maps to guide us. We walked through some dodgy looking areas but it was all good and made it back to the hotel about 20 minutes or so later.

Our last day in Valencia we spent down at the beach again, but not for long as it was so windy and ridiculously hot. It was 48 degrees at one point! After the beach it was back to the hotel, as Kate, Dung and Luke were staying another night, where we showered and lay around before saying our goodbyes and going to the airport to fly back to London where Mark, Sam and Sam’s friend Michael were going to Ireland and Scotland the day after so I would have the house to myself for a few days until Chandy would arrive to stay for a couple of nights before our trip to Turkey.