After about 6 months of planning and working towards this, our departure day arrived. All of our family and friends helped us accomplish everything we needed to prior to our departure. Thank you all so very much. We could not have done it without your love, support and help.
It certainly was exhausting preparing everything and very emotional leaving all the family and friends we love. But we only live once, what the hell right? We already miss all of you and hope that you will come to visit us during our time in Spain.
We used frequent flyer miles for our one way ticket to Valencia. This made our journey a bit long with two connections. Overall it took us about 25 hours to get here.
We were fortunate to get Business class seats for the flights from IAD (Washington/Dulles) to ZRH (Zurich) and from ZRH to VLC (Valencia). United is so wonderful (not) to their customers that with an almost empty plane from SFO to IAD they didn't even upgrade us to Economy Plus. But it worked out as everyone on the plane could have had a row of 3 seats to themselves to lay down on. I do have to say how cool it is to be able to, mid-trip, take a shower in the Business lounge at the Zurich airport. Outside the airport it was just a light snow falling.
Upon arrival in Valencia it was 22 Celsius which is about 71 Fahrenheit.
We are staying in the One Shot Hotel - Calle Colon # 46 - the in room brochure says "The Unique and Spontaneous Hotels that Supports Art"
We have not yet wandered around as we needed to get a few hours of sleep. I expect we will walk around a little this evening to find a place for a little dinner before we crash.
Hi Howard & Beth, looking forward to experiencing this adventure through your blog posts :) Also I'm trying to figure out how to get email notifications of same.
ReplyDeleteHi Dayna,
ReplyDeleteThanks for leaving a message I tried to set up email notifications, I'll try again!