Friday, April 29, 2016

Practicing to live like a Spaniard - Thursday & Friday, April 28 & 29, 2016

We just returned from dinner, at 11:15 pm, which is why I titled this entry as practicing to live like a Spaniard.  It's is amazing how late the Spanish people eat dinner.  On average the Spanish people go to sleep at 12:15 am on week days and 12:53 am on weekends.  While we were eating a family arrived to eat with 2 young children at 10:25 pm.....

Since we wanted something different to eat for dinner than Tapas, we chose this Italian restaurant as it was within 2 blocks of our hotel One Shot 46  it is called La Fabbrica.  We had a wonderful burrata cheese salad and Margarita pizza.  Our waitress was Maria Marin and she may become our very first Spanish friend.  She spoke impeccable English, as she lived in Tampa from 4th grade to high school. She was warm, friendly and AMAZING. She gave us he name of her cousin who helps people find apartments.  She gave us her contact info and told us that if her cousin does not speak English she would translate for us.  It is such and overwhelming feeling to be offered such a gift of help and support from someone you just met, so I do hope that she will become our first Spanish friend.  BTW she gave "paid for" one of my 2 glasses of wine and also gave us each a Lemonchello.  

OK so the past few days we have been trying to get a feel for the different parts of Valencia.  We've walked, taken the bus and taxi's!
I know it seems to make sense but the trees the city has planted throughout the city are Valencia orange trees with a few Jacaranda's mixed in.

 Given that we are living out of our suitcases I haven't broken out my camera.  So the photo's I've taken (below) are all from my iPhone.  Overall we like Valencia we are just trying to figure out if we want to live in a city or try to find a place further south along the coast.   

Oh I do want to list a few other places we eaten as we have loved each of them.  For dinner last night we ate at Trenca Dish and for lunch today we ate at Bar & Kitchen .

We did visit the Museu de Belles Arts de Valencia, and I took quite a few photo's enjoy.


"Our Heavenly Father"
Valencia women



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