My Last Visitors

I had another weekend of visitors, fun and frolics.  A spontaneous decision was made that Kat (my brother´s lovely girlfriend) and her parents would come over before I leave Valencia.  As Kat was returning for the second time and had seen most things last time, we relaxed for the weekend but her parents did a great job of seeing plenty of the city in just 2 days.

I was exhausted by the end of the week but managed to shake off a migraine just in time to enjoy some delicious food, scrummy cocktails and fabulous relaxed days on the beach. Sometimes you just need a couple of girlie days to chat and chill.  This really is the life...

Enjoying our Agua de Valencia.

Anyone for salmon ice cream? Anchovies? Tortilla?   Me neither!

 Just chilling.

 

The Umbracle, on our way over to Sorci e Morsi.

 

Mmm, limoncella. Not Kat´s favourite!

 

1am traffic jam at the beach.

 

 

 

Kat´s parents´first paella went down well.

Just another weekend in paradise!  I´m hoping that packing and cleaning won´t take up all of my last weekend here, and that I can find a bit of time to head back down to the beach to carry on topping up my tan.  It won´t be the same without Kat to chat to though, I don´t think we stopped talking for more than 5 minutes all weekend- I was even talking to her in my sleep!

Thanks so much for coming over Kat, it was a great weekend!

Feria de la Tapa - Valencia's Tapas Fair

We are always on the look out for things to do that we can't do at home, so that we make the most of our time in Valencia, however long that might be.  So when we saw large green buses roaming around the city plastered in details about the Feria de la Tapa, I knew that we had to make a trip to the port.

The event is in its thrird year and was certainly popular.  We arrived at around 10.15pm and queued with hundreds of people to be let in.  Luckily the queue moved quickly and we only waited around 5 minutes.  This would probably be the busiest time as Spanish people tend to eat between 10pm and midnight before going out but I wanted to go when it was busy.  It had a great buzz, the music was loud and made you want to dance and the views over the marina were great.

On arriving you exchange cash for tokens which you then exchange for beer and tapas.  Each token cost just €1.20 and each tapa and beer was  token so an absolute bargain.  There were 24 restaurants from Valencia and the surrounding area offering a wide variety of tapas; each restaurant had 3 on a mini menu.

It was packed and difficult to choose but we were very impressed with all of our selections.  I meant to take more photos of the food but you know how it is when you're hungry!

Helpfully each restaurant was clearly marked and it also said where it was.  We have a good handle to hunt down now and go for a full meal.

So many people!  It was a good sign that so many Spanish people were there eating, there were obviously some very popular restaurants represented there based on the queues!

My favourite tapa- a brushetta of brown read with goats cheese and onion relish.

I had to queue for ages so they remade these melt in the middle chocolate puddings but OH. MY. GOD. so worth it.

WE found ourselves thoroughly stuffed and watered for only 12 tokens between us, costing €14.40.  Not bad for a Saturday night dinner.

The Feria de la Tapa is on until tonight and I am genuinely wondering if Rich will be up for a lunchtime visit today.

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