Moments (In Spain)

We awoke to a sunny (air-conditioned) morning in our Valencia hotel room, luxuriating in climate control and clean clean clean pillow clouds before moseying on down to the breakfast buffet included with the extortionate room fees. Having blown all our money on those privilege of sleeping in those crisp white sheets, we took full advantage of filling up for the day so we wouldn't have to buy lunch (or dinner, as it turns out).

After filling my purse with fruit and cereal (provisions for the rest of the day), we returned to the room to enjoy our final hours before checkout, taking a quick catnap and a loooong shower, following a brief tour of the rooftop hot tub looking out over the beach. Pretty swanky stuff.

Squinting in the sunlight!

After packing up and checking out, we decided to be adventurous (my feet cried out from their threadbare Keds) and walk to Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences, an area of the city with a bunch of MOSI-type museums, an aquarium, and nice parks, all with very cool, very modern architecture.

After an hour or so of walking--nothing compared to yesterday's four-hour trek from the train station--we did indeed come across a cluster of pretty sweet buildings. Unfortunately they all charge about 30 Euro to check out the marvels within, so we began the trek back to the beach for some much-needed downtime and a soak in the Mediterranean.

And now, thanks to taxi, train, and the Madrid Metro, we are back in Salamanca, the open window letting in the wild Friday night sounds of middle-aged madrilenos having dinner or tapas or whatever people without blogs do at 12:45 AM.

I am still crusty with seawater and completely exhausted, so it's off to shower and bed for me. Until the morn, kids.