On Saturday, after watching too many episodes of Modern Family, after eating what may have been the best pizza ever, after we waited for the rain to clear, we headed to Oktoberfest. In Valencia. With 80s music....
I'd been in Valencia for a week and, let's face it, I'd done nothing. On Friday we were determined to change all that. The plan was to walk around the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències and then walk around the town center and...
After waking up in a Holiday Inn and having no idea where the fuck I was I just caught a cab so I wouldn't have to even try to figure it out. When I got home, Ali opened the door and exclaimed "you're alive!" Apparently, when...
Sometimes you have no intention of seeing someone again. Because you think they have to be too young. Because you think the whole thing is ridiculous. Because, frankly, you still think too much. And when he kisses you goodbye and asks if you want to...
I was beginning to think I might never see a tomato. That I'd come home from that small town in Spain, from La Tomatina, from the biggest tomato fight in the world, with my 4 euro dress still pristinely white. The cannon that signaled the...
Our next two days in Valencia pretty much revolved around shopping and food. We headed to a couple of markets and went all around town trying to find clothes and gear that might withstand getting pummeled by tomatoes (really, our biggest/only reason for meeting up...
I woke up early on Sunday and got ready to say goodbye to hostel life for a bit. It was only appropriate that in between packing my bag and checking out I went to take a shower but instead found a girl passed out between...
And then, it was suddenly my last night in a hostel for 5 weeks. I hadn't intended on doing anything that night, really. I needed to edit some photos and write some posts and what not. I wanted to get things done and relax a...
I arrived in Valencia late on Friday. I didn't really feel like exploring much so I just stuck around the hostel for a bbq and then went to bed....
A three course meal of Salmorejo Cordobes (cold tomato soup), Calamares a la Andaluza (Andulasian squid), and Arroz con Leche (rice pudding)....