nicole walking over a bridge in valencia.

fish at the market in valencia.

I am very, very tired. Mostly it´s because we headed to the airport at 4:30 am this morning, and the party outside our window in Palma finished around 3 am. It was quite charming, actually. One man was playing along and about 10-20 people all night song along with him....not very conducive to sleeping.

We landed in Valencia, which is a really big, wide, spread out city. It has a combination of old historic government buildings, a cathedral, a huge indoor market that we bought some fruit from today(the ulimate frustrating experience for non-native speakers), and lots of low-rises. Everything is sort of white-washed and the streets are mostly quite wide except for downtown where alleyways weave in and out of one another. It´s almost like Spain´s Boston, or Dublin.

We were planning on heading over to the City of Arts & Sciences to see the largest aquarium in Europe, but decided to take a nap instead. We´ve sort of been going non-stop, taking it all in. We needed a break. I think that we will still wander about tonight and check out the architecture of that amazing space (generic picture below).

Again, a very early morning tomorrow with 4 hr train ride to Madrid, where we will spend our last two nights. Wow, I can´t believe it´s almost over. We´ve have had so many outrageous experiences and are running a 100 miles per hour, so this trip seems like it has just flow by (with a little bit of turbulence along the way, of course).