Monday, July 25, 2016

Another week in Valencia - Monday, July 25th to Sunday, July 31

Our normal weekly pattern has become something like this...on Monday, Wednesday and Friday or Saturday we schedule noon appointments with our personal trainer Ricardo at Personal Gim. On Tuesday and Thursday we go to the Pilates classes with Patricia at 6:00 pm.

In between we go to the language Intercambio's on Monday night at Black Chili and on Wednesday afternoon at the La galeria Jorge Juan.  We also spend time at home studying Spanish in various ways....I've taken to reading comics, or reading some flight magazines we have which have Spanish side by side with English.  We also watch a little TV, we do the mobile app Duolingo and I also do Rosetta Stone.....slowing we are learning more.

This week we went to a new beach to spend the day it is called El Saler....check out this YouTube video


On Saturday night July 30th, we had our friends Roz and Stephen and there friends Bonnie and Jose over for some cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, prior to Roz, Stephen Beth and I going to the Palau de la Musica to see a combination of different dances.  

Sunday, July 31 - We got to see the Batalla de Flores (Battle of Flowers), a spectacular parade of floats decorated with natural flowers that traveled along Paseo de la Alameda.  It is held on the last Sunday in July as a closing ceremony for the fair. While the attending public throws flowers and petals (which we did not see happen) but it ends with what else.....mascleta (string of firecrackers).












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