I'm back with another travel post!
This time I will be talking about my trip to Valencia. The trip was a graduation present for my sister and I of sorts. We went for 5 days, from monday to friday. I just got back which is why this post is a little (A LOT) late. I want to try an upload a post every friday from now on as I have more time during the summer holidays. So back to Valencia, as most of you might know, Valencia is a big city on the east coast of Spain. It has a few very impresive and famous musea apart from an historical centre. And beautiful beaches, lots of them. Apart from going to the beach and to the musea, we went to a six nations field hockey tournament. The last training tournament befor the olympics. My sister and I where very excited as it was men hockey and we had wanted to see a few players in particular before they went to Rio.
Well firstly we had to get to Valencia. It was a 7 hour drive, which my sister and I are used to as we do it occasionally for hockey. Besides we had American Horror Story (Love that show!) season 4 Freakshow, to keep us entertained. After a long car journey we finally arrived in Valencia, at our apartment. It was part of a big complex called Port Saplaya. If you ever go to Valencia I suggest staying there. It is cheap but offers good quality, includes passes to a pool and is literally 5 steps from the beach. The only "bad" thing is that there is no WIFI, but hey we can live without that right?
The first thing we did after dropping our bags of was go shopping for food, there is a big supermarket about a 5 minute walk from the appartments. I was excited to go there just because they have these A-MAZING cinnamon-apple muffins they don't sell anywhere else, or not as far as I know. I am literally obsessed with them so naturally I ate one (Okay maybe 2) every single day.
We where lucky to get an apartment with a big balcony wich had a perfect view of the beach. unfortunatly for us, we where in the west so there where no sunsets from this part of the beach. So my sister and I decided to go out one morning at 6.30 AM to watch the sunrise just like I did the year before. Only this time, my camera's memory card decided to die, so I only had my camera, but I will include a couple pictures I took last year.
Apart from taking lots of pictures of the beach and going to the beach, which caused my hair to become very frizzy and wavy (hence the title). We went to the "Ciudad de las artes y las ciencias." which is essentially a bunch of beautiful buildings designed by the architect Calatrava in the "Jardin del turia" There is 6 different musea but we only went to 2 as we didn't have a lot of time, and wheren't really interested in the other ones.
On the second day in Valencia we visited the science museum which was very exciting for me as I am a big science geek (I also studied science Bachillerato) I was suprised about the amount of things in the museum I actually allready knew. It wasn't as excited as we expected but it was good eitherway.
The day after that we went to the Oceanographic, which is a big marine museum/zoo. There are lots of different acuaria with different sea animals of all different parts of the world. It was a lot bigger and nicer then expected. I have always loved the ocean and marine life, so naturally I was very (VERY) excited. My favourite things was the acuarium with the sharks (I have a strange facination/obsession with sharks.) and the Dolphin show, as dolphins are one of my favourite animals.
Of course we can't forget the six nations tournament!
We went for 2 days/ evenings as there where 3 matches each day that started at 4 PM. There where many different hockeyplayers I was dying to meet, and my sister in true stalker style, where hunting for pictures, we forgot to take anything they could sign so we had to deal with just pictures.
I will not go into further detail as it will be very boring for you guys. I am going to add a couple of pictures with a few players from New Zealand and Ireland, who are going to Rio.
Hope you liked this post!
Have an amazing day/ night wherever you are and I will see you guys next week.
Simoneex
