We went to Valencia during the Fallas Festival. It consists of fireworks and parades. They set off daytime fireworks - the explosions were deafening - my ears were ringing for hours afterwards.
Valencia is another beautiful Spanish city - Spain really is beautiful. Although - it is the centre that is beautiful - the suburbs are more ropey - lots of tall boxes for people to live in.
Especially great in Valencia is the Central Market - it is in a huge building that has many grand features, such as a high dome in the centre. The produce is fresh and high quality and the market is very busy - loads of local people milling around doing their weeky shop. Most of them use shopping trolleys because they buy so much. I have noticed - there are nice looking well-made shopping trolleys on sale everywhere - I guess you need one if you shop in such markets. Every town we have ever been to in Spain has a good municiple market - why can't we do that in England? I suppose Tesco would not stand for it.
We decided to go to Granada from Valencia and took the bus - a 9 hour journey. The journey was interesting though. The road follows valleys along the Sierra Nevada mountain range, so the scenery was spectacular. The valleys must have good soil - there was food growing all along the way - olives, orange trees that were all in blossom, lemons etc.
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