Valencia

Needing some Vitamin D we headed to Barcelona and Valencia for a few days. Temperature the same as London, but I was reminded that the sky is actually high, and doesn't hang just above the tops of houses in a permanent shade of grey

Thanks to the tube strike it was an expensive and long taxi drive from Ben and Ara's for a flight to Barcelona, a night there in transit really and then a fast and comfortable train trip for two nights in Valencia...

We explored the old town, enjoyed a few menu del dia's, and spent an evening watching the festive Tottenham match in an Irish pub as is now almost tradition in between Christmas and New Years. Even went tourist style on the double decker red bus to get the lay of the land.

Some of the design was really beautiful, very art noveau...orange trees were everywhere...

Exploring - the old town was concentric circles so you could get a bit lost

After years of flooding, they damned the river, diverted it and turned it in to a park

One of the nice plazas