by cwells | 2024-04-15 | Culture, Festival, Pix, Spain, Train, Travel
A couple of years ago, we visited Alicante. Aside from being shocked that almost two years had passed, we found Alicante just as charming as always. As I mentioned in my previous post, we avoided the last week of the festival in Valencia. After a short train ride, we...
by cwells | 2024-04-05 | Culture, Fallas, Festival, Pix, Spain, Valencia, Walking
We had plans to escape. During Las Fallas, the city population changes and over a million visitors appear in Valencia. For the second year in a row, we made plans to go somewhere else the final week of the festival. While I know that might be an unpopular choice for...
by cwells | 2024-01-22 | Culture, Pix
Some time between September 15, 1977 and January 15, 1978, my family went to New Orleans to see the King Tut exhibit. As a touring show, the exhibit was a national phenomenon and over 870,594 people had viewed the exhibit in New Orleans alone. We were in a line that...
by cwells | 2024-01-15 | Culture, Holiday, Pix, Spain, Walking
Experiencing the holiday season in another city and another country always feels special to me. Every culture interprets holidays differently. While I have been in Valencia for the holidays quite a few times, I am still amazed at the variety of decorations. I also...
by cwells | 2023-02-27 | Culture, Food, Pix, Spain, Valencia
I grew up in the Deep South, in Georgia. At our house, we had three trees that thrived in the central Georgia climate: A holly tree, a dogwood tree, and the pièce de résistance, a pecan tree. Every other year, the pecan tree would drop an enormous number of...
by cwells | 2023-02-21 | Bus, Culture, Food, Holiday, Pix, Spain, Walking
I’ve been to Benidorm before, but only for a brief drive-by. So when a friend invited us to Benidorm to help celebrate his birthday, we decided to make a long weekend of it. After all, we reasoned, it’s off season for the Spanish east coast, and the hotels were really...
