Valencia

The old gateway to the city of Valencia

We decided to take a coach trip to Valencia from the caravan site to save Rob having to drive and also we didn't have to worry about getting lost or parking. There were about 36 of us on the coach with a young Spanish girl as a guide. When we got to Valencia she offered to show us around a bit so we stayed with her and had a walking tour around part of the city.

Unfortunately our guide's English wasn't very good and of course our Spanish is non-existent so we didn't learn very much about the buildings.

This was the cathedral.

                                                                                                                                     
The building on the left is rather unusual as apparently the middle part is a very narrow house. If you look closely you can see a door at the bottom and then french windows all the way up. It must be a very interesting place to see inside.

We visited a huge indoor market which was full of fruit, vegetable, meat, fish and cheese stalls all looking very delicious and very tempting to buy.

The ceiling was very impressive with a huge round window in the middle.

The outside of the market

Flower stalls around a square

Bicycles for hire

The Bullring

The Railway Station

Where we had a wonderful 3 course lunch for 11euros, well worth a visit except we paid 3.50euros for a bottle of water!!

This was rather unusual, on the outside of a derelict building fencing was put up and then a picture had been weaved into it with wool.

The building in the middle was standing completely on its own and it looked as though all the buildings around it had been pulled down.

A picture painted on a wall looking very life-like.

Just showing the thickness of the old door on the old gateway.

Waiting for the coach where we started our journey

Back on the coach and making our way back out of the city we passed the new Arts and Science Museum.

And the University!

We enjoyed our day out in Valencia and it certainly is a very interesting city with its mixture of old and new buildings, probably worth another visit one day.