An other picture dump – this time images of things you can see around la Plaza de la Reina: Fancy a ride through Valencia in a horse carriage? Then you’ll be happy to know that la Plaza de la Reina is the right place to go. Anyone know how much an hour through Valencia costs? [...]

Worship Me, Please Fallas seems as though it were just yesterday, but there can apparently be no rest in this city. On the second Sunday of May, the festivals celebrating Our Lady of the Forsaken (La Virgen de los Desamparados) begin. Actually, the festivities truly begin the day before. Mostly for ourselves, we’ve compiled a [...]

This statement is of course very subjective, since I’ve only been to 3 different horchaterias since living in the city. The origin of the horchata can be found in Alboraya, a town bordering Valencia. And Alboraya’s Horchateria Daniel is the place to be. Huge and extremely popular, it’s also the birthplace of fartons – baked [...]

Every Tuesday night, there is a Flamenco session at Radio City (location). We went this week, and had an excellent time. I’m not an expert in Flamenco (and in fact, before I bought a Camarón de la Isla album 4 weeks ago, I had never really listened to it at all), but I think the [...]

If you like books, don’t miss this year’s book fair being held in Viveros Gardens (location). We went today, and spent about an hour wandering about the 81 stands. Just about every bookstore in Valencia has a presence here, from Libreria Patagonia (yea!), to Futurama Comics (hurrah!), to El Corte Ingles (boo!) Just about every [...]