I did not know any of this about Ernest Hemingway.
"Valencia appears often in his work; "the city is referred to, one way or another, in seven of his novels including" "For Whom The Bell Tolls" and "Death in the Afternoon". When he was staying in a hotel in Valencia he started writing his first novel "The Sun Also Rises".
The photo's and article in this link says that when he "arrived in the Estación del Norte (North Train Station) he immediately fell in love with the city. If the stations colorful ceramic tiles and Modernistic architecture impressed him, what really swung it was the huge bullring, which was the first thing he saw when he came out onto the street"
Everyone who has visited we have walked with down Colón street past the Plaza de Toros de Valencia (bullring) and into the Estación del Norte. We think they too have all loved it!
Hemingway's favorite place in Valencia, after the bullring, was "Restaurante La Pepica" at Playa de las Arenas.
As for eating at Restaurante La Pepica we have had a meals with Claudia & Morry and Myra & Richard there.
It is hard to imagine that we only have 2 months left. We booked roundtrip flights recently, it was less expensive than a one way ticket. We return home on March 30th and I believe our return flight is October 22nd.
We will have had 18 family and friends who stayed with us during our 11 months here. It amounts to about 8 weeks of hosting. Add to about 5 weeks of traveling in Spain, Italy and München. It's no wonder the time has flown by. In retrospect we wish we would have arranged our lives so we could have stayed 18 months or maybe even 2 years. We just didn't know then what we know now. But we do have a return ticket. I plan to renew our Resident card for another year, if I can so you never know what may happen!
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