Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Valenica

Valencia is the home of the Holy Grail. A cup that Jesus drank from... if you believe that kind of stuff. It looked far too new to me but what do i know. Anyway we paid the money to see it despite our skepticism. It was pretty cool to see, it always surprises me how protected these things are, behind multiple layers of glass, then shielded by fences so you can only get within about 5m of the thing. in the same cathedral that had the holy grail they had a little museum i suppose you would call it, it housed multiple old arms and chest bones. very strange things to keep if you ask me. We also spent some time in the park (actually a lot of time, over two days we walked pretty much every inch of the thing) which used to be a river but it kept over flowing and flooding the town so they have diverted the river elsewhere and instead constructed this park in its place. parts of the park were beautiful but others were dusty and unkept. i think its still a work in progress. towards the beach end of the park was a collection of space age looking buildings, these are supposed to be the second highest tourists attraction of Spain. i think they were called the Palau de les Arts. Most of the
buildings didn't seem to be finished yet, the outsides seemed to be finished but the insides were still under construction on a few of the buildings. It took us a very long time to walk to the Palau de les Arts but despite our sore feet we kept going and went down to the beach in search of gelati. by the time we got to the docks it was about 5pm we were exhausted and still had to do laundry that night so we jumped on a tram missing out on Valencian gelati and went back to the hostel. luckily the next morning before we left we found a cupcake store so we got our sugar hit there for a nice healthy breakfast of brownies and cupcakes.
a cool fort
this was opposite our hostel
the entrance to our hostel
weird baskets at the supermarket
liters of sangria and beer
the holy grail
weird chesty parts
more weird chesty parts
random bones
an arm
fountain in the park
crazy space age building
more space age stuff
Ewen and the dinosaur!
down at the water
grumpy after all our walking and no gelati reward

1 comment:

Mark P said...

Spain sounds wondeful,you guys are having such a great Le Grande Tour it incredible. Love the photos and descriptions. Keep it up Pete excellent