Valencia day trip - March 11

What a day we had yesterday.  We were up at 6:30, a bit stiff from our trek down the mountain the day before, we walked to the train station and by 10:00 we were in our old stomping grounds in Valencia from 3 years ago. We walked to the street that we had lived on for 6 weeks just for memories sake. It still looked the same.

We spent the day wandering around the city looking at the work being done on the sculptures for the Fallas festival next week. They were not finished yet. I guess we went a couple of days too early. Nonetheless it was fun watching them work on them. At one point we stopped for a beer while watching them put a head on one of the sculptures. We walked the old river bed which is a park. We always enjoyed walking there when we were in Valencia and we again enjoyed it. I had forgotten how clean and white Valencia was and big. The sculptures are different each year so you can go to our 2016 blog to see pictures from that year.

At 2:00 We joined everybody from Valencia for the mascleta. This takes place at 2:00 in the afternoon for 2 weeks. Instead of fireworks, this is a firecracker show where it is all about noise, smoke and the smell of gun powder. The noise was deafening. Jacques took out his hearing aids but all I could do was put my hands over my ears.

We arrived back at the apartment after 9 and my biggest day with 34,000 steps. Today, we are doing nothing except the market. Even if I don't get 10,000 steps it doesn't matter. I think that I have earned a day off.

Castillo de Sax taken from the train on our way to Valencia

City Center

Amusement park based on Gulliver's travel.

Modern day Neptune

2 dogs cooling off.

Museum pf music

Trees in bloom

Traditional costume

Train Station and Bull ring.

Main sculpture being assembled on the right.

Museum of Arts and Science

Kids having fun in water balloons

Another piece going on.

Women Power

Mascleta

Something for every taste

The head goes on next

There it goes. Notice the lack of safety harnesses.