Wake up: 10:15
Sleep: 00:00
After having a relaxed full-English breakfast in our room (which was nice) we headed for Valencia on the 11:00 hotel bus. The trip around Valencia lasted the entire day, and was most enjoyable. We started off heading for the Finnegans, an Irish pub that just happened to show the Chelsea-Tottenham game, live in Spanish. A close 1-0 win.
We left the pub after a couple more drinks and headed for the major shopping road, Colon. Along the road we found a major store (similar to Harrods) which we bought a couple of shirts in to wear to dinner at the hotel (which demanded no t-shirts, shorts or tracksuits). Further on we also found a sunglasses shop (for me) before we headed back towards the Plaza where Finnegans was (Plaza la Reina).
At the end of that Plaza stood Cathedral Valencia, which had a tower that you could climb to the top of for a fantastic view. It was closed, so we looked round the Cathedral instead. A mixture of feelings from awe to shock pervaded me as I walked round. The Cathedral was huge with beautiful carvings, paintings and drawings, but also didn't feel like God's home to me, which was sad.We then went back into the Plaza outside to sit outside a nice Tapas restuarant for lunch, where we had a mixture of hams, cheeses and bread. It was during that time that we found out Portsmouth were beating Man Utd, so we rushed back to Finnegans for the last 30mins of the game. Funny stuff, with a strange own goal and Portsmouth finishing off Man U 2-1!
After leaving the pub a second time, we walked along randomly before finding a sweet shop, where we bought some Pick'n'mix style sweets, and a record store we had found in our earlier ramblings, which we left €100 shorter and 11 CDs heavier, and with a very happy Dad.
We finally took a taxi back to the hotel before settling down for the night.
This entry was posted on the 11/04/07 and represents today in my trip to Valencia. Please see the Valencia Summary for general information on my trip.
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