by cwells | 2014-07-09 | Culture, Expat, Graduate School, Holiday, Pix, Quote, Spain, Spanish, Travel, Valencia
Gentle readers, please forgive my lack of posts. While there are many things occurring here in the fair city of Valencia, my attention has been drawn to two alternate tasks: working and dissertation development. Both require me to be attached to my computer for long...
by cwells | 2014-07-01 | Culture, Holiday, Pix, Spain, Spanish, Walking
Imagine the scene. It’s seven in the evening, and you decide to visit Plaza de la Virgen for a drink and enjoy the people-watching opportunity. Suddenly, two police on horseback clop-clop by, followed by the sound of a band playing music. A moment later, a...
by cwells | 2014-06-16 | Culture, Holiday, Pix, Walking
I have to admit it… the Spanish idea of siesta is pretty awesome. After Montmartre, both Ron and I were tired, and decided to get some sleep before heading out on an evening walk that was filled with the sights of the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysee. In...
by cwells | 2014-06-12 | Air, Pix, Travel, Walking
One of my dearest friends, Ron, was visiting Paris for work, and I was able to find a super cheap price on an airline to go see him. With only two days to see some typical Parisian sights together, we chose our first expedition to include Montmartre and Sacre Coeur....
by cwells | 2014-06-10 | Culture, Food, Pix, Spain, Spanish, Valencia, Walking
My friend Angela turned me onto a Feria de Tapas about five blocks from my flat that is part of an annual degustation event. She works later in the evening, so I was able to join her after work for an hour or so. As you can see, the crowd is quite intense, and it was...
by cwells | 2014-06-02 | Bicycle, Culture, Pix, Spain, Spanish, Valencia
In a previous post, I provided pictures of my morning bike ride scenery in the Túria riverbed. In that post, I headed toward the northwest part of the city, and could have even left town using the bike trails that are scenic and well-tended. For this post, I headed in...
