Signing up for Spanish school

We continue to struggle, a bit, to find a place to live.  We decided that, since our hotel checkout date is Wednesday (5/4), we would book a VRBO place for another week while we continue our search. This will give us an opportunity to check out other locations give us a larger space and a kitchen.  It's nice to eat out on occasion but for every meal, a bit much for us.  The VRBO place we booked is located in the Old City of Valencia.

OK (valle) we walked over to a Spanish school we liked called Pickup Valencia. During our conversation with them we knew it would be the school for us. The location was central, the classes small, 5 people or less, and they have a lot of flexibility to work.  It turns out that they are also a Tourism Agency which was a stroke of luck.  They gave us a few web sites, which we had not found, that had apartments for rent.  They place many students into local families homes or find places that 3, 4 or 5 students can rent together.  Clearly we are not their target market.  BUT on one of the web sites we found a couple of apartments that we liked.

I digress for a moment.  Last night, after returning from our drive to Javea we wanted to eat something close and not Spanish food.  We found La Fabbrica Della Pasta, 2 blocks from our hotel.  It was around 10:00 pm and their were a few families together with about 6 to 8 kids....I still have not gotten over the surprise of seeing kids eating dinner so late.  In any case we have a lovely dinner but I back tracked to this experience because we our waitress Maria Marin, is Spanish but spent 6 years (middle and HS) in Tampa Bay, Florida.  She was amazing helpful, supportive, gave us her cell number, told us her friend was a real estate agent and could help us find a place.  She even volunteered to translate what a Mensch she is.

Valle (OK) so we had her agents name then we got the web sites from the school Pickup Valencia so we committed, after today's siesta, to making appointments to see apartments.  We spent the mid-day studying our Spanish flash cards in Turia Gardens, which is right in the middle of town.

After an hour, and our heads hurting a bit we went to lunch at Lambrusqueria.  When we walked to the park we saw how full this restaurant was with locals so we ate there after we studied.  It was fantastic.

So in the afternoon we made 3 different appointments for Tuesday to looks at apartments.  We will see what tomorrow brings!