- Another comfortable overnight bus and we landed in Valencia. It had big shoes to fill after Seville but we had heard good things. Unfortunately our hostel selection was poor - a bus-about hostel full of clueless 18-19yo bogan gap-year Australians. Awesome!
- First cab off the rank - Valencia's Formula 1 street circuit. The site where many flying laps had been completed, Michael Schumacher had cheated his way to many-a victory, and where local lad Mark Webber did a full speed backflip downthere back straight just a week earlier. It crossed our mind to hire a car/scooter/segway but the famous swing-bridge was open which quickly ended that though process.
- As has become customary, we did the free walking tour on the first day (well, evening) to get our bearings. Much of the history was a repeat of what we heard in Seville, but it confirmed a few attractions for us, and also provided a few more for us to follow up.
- The next day composed mostly of checking out the local beaches. Adventurous? Not really - but it was the first decent beach I'd seen since Miami.
- Back on track the next morning, we ventured through the old town to check out some of the sites we saw on the walking tour - city gates, brasilica, the many plazas throughout the city, and the riverbed turned submerged parkland.
- Our final day consisted of a quick trip to the beach, with a stop off past the arts and science park located in the former river bed. This was probably my favourite aspect of Valencia and it had nothing to do with it's history - one o the best examples of contemporary architecture I've seen.
Next stop: Madrid, but only to get a flight to the party mecca - IBIZA!
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