Valencia - Spain June 28-July 02

Sunday June 28
We left Madrid on the train as the bus and train were pretty much the same price (45 Euros/90$Au each) but the train was 3 hours faster.

We arrived in Valencia and it was very hot, hotter than anywhere we'd been so far. We checked into the Indigo Hostel which was a pretty cool hostel, the staff were nice and the hostel was pretty well serviced and had a friendly atmosphere.

We didn't do much and cbf thinking about it right now. This is hard work writing and in depth blog!

Monday June 29
Was booked in to get my tatt with Xavi today. Most painful tatt ever. By far. Really awesome job, so happy with it. Afterwards, Xavi took us out to dinner for tapas and then to a blues band. One of his friends was playing in a bad that was the support act. The band was from Mexico, it was Igor Prado and band, they were pretty cool... They had faster pussycat playing on a projector screen the whole time too.


Tuesday June 30
Steve went and got his tatt done so we couldn't really visit the beach even tho the weather was perfect for it. I'm not much of a beach person at home, but on holidays I really like beaches.

Once they are healed Xavi said they will soften in colour, they are designed to be softer look that normal tatts. Will post some pics when they have settled down.

After his tatt we decided to go on the pub crawl as there were a bunch of people from our hostel going. It was good fun, we met tonnes of people and the pub crawl was really large. It was 10 Euros and included a free drink at each place. It was the biggest pub crawl we had been on. We stumbled home at around 5am and slept most of the next day.

Wednesday July 1

Got up at 1 and decided to do the tapas tour at 2. We went to 4 restaurants, and we got a free beer or sangria plus tapas at each. It cost 12 Euros each. At the last restuarant we got tonnes of food, not just one tapas, it was such good value and it filled up lunch and dinner so we were pretty happy. We met some Aussies we had stayed in the same hostel as in Santorini and they were doing the pub crawl that night so we decided to do it again.

At the last bar Steve has his phone pick pocketed so that pub a shit end to an otherwise rad stay in Valencia. Was my fav place in Spain fo sure. Steve went to the police station to report it because we knew we wouldn't have time before our flight in the morning.

Thursday July 2

Got up a bit seedy, packed and left for the airport. Flew to Amsterdam.