Day 28 9:54 pm Valencia

Last day and boy must I say it was a good one. We went to the market which is full of stalls with fruit, spices, vegetables, meat, fish, everything. You just go around and point and ask and get. It´s really cool and amazing. The meat aspect makes me kind of laugh because they are all very close and its all competition, it would be like all the meat departments in Powell River working in front of each other. How do you choose which is best to get your meat from.

We had amazing coffee outside of the market. So good. Spanish coffee is really strong even with the milk.

We went from there to go see the stadium which was still being built so it was kind of a waste of time but whatever, there is a mysterious cool looking stadium that we never found.

After that we headed down the big avenue and were going to go to the Fallas museum but it closed for siesta time so we had to wait two and a half hours. We were in the City of Arts and Sciences part of Valencia so we admired them and then went to this mall like area and had pizza in this restaurant, after wasting time we wandered back to the museum a little early and it was still not open biuut all these elderly people and this school bus full of kids had shown up so we put it off and decided we would go back later because we did not want any pushy Spanish grannies knocking us over or loud kids so we walked across the street and found Gulliver!

They have this big playground made up of Gulliver from Gulliver´s Travels, its full of ropes to climb up his legs and slides to go down his sides and shoes and hair and staircases to climb all over him. Its really cool and really big and we didnt even know it was there, we just wandered into the park.

We went to the fallas museum after having some fun in the park and we are so glad we did and so glad we waited because it was amazing, to think that all the amazing sculptured charicatures in there were saved from being burnt, it amazes me and makes me wonder what ones have been burnt. They are so detailed and just incredible creations, its almost like taking all the works in an art gallery and setting them on flame after letting people admire them for just a little bit.

We really enjoyed our visit and walked all the way back and decided to look for food and to go to the other tower. We got to the tower and it looked exactely like the other one so we decided against climbing it and walked down this alley way and came apon these big huge doors and peeked inside to find the Corpus Cristi museum and again were amazed. I will never be able to understand how it is possible to just wander down one alley and be able to find something wonderful. We are constantly being surprised by Valencia. There were these HUGE wooden figures that people control and parade around with and these hug amazingly sculpted wooden floats. We are so happy that we were able to do that and seeing the Fallas museum and then this was just wow.

One day I will go to Fallas because it is just intriguing.

Tomorrow to Madrid at 11:25 am. Can´t wait.