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Hola Valencia’s Top Five: Day Trips

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:July 23, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/Photography
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With our impending 3-month trip to Asturias coming ever closer, we thought it'd be a good time to look back on our years here, and compile some "Best Of" lists.…

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Bike Tour around the Montgó: Dénia-Xàbia

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:July 2, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/Photography/Travel
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For my birthday, Jürgen and I went biking around the mountain of Montgó. Separating the vacation cities of Dénia and Xàbia, the Montgó raises to over 2400 feet and has…

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Our Trip to Madrid

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:June 2, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/Photography/Video
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Another quick post unrelated to Valencia... we got some great pictures and took a video during our recent trip to Madrid, and need to share! Madrid is completely unlike Valencia;…

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Bike Trip from Utiel to Venta del Moro

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:May 20, 2010
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Through pine forests, almond trees and fields of grape vines, and alongside an old railway track, we recently took a long bike trip from Utiel to Venta del Moro, and…

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Bike Trip to Saler and the Albufera

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:May 3, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/Photography/Tips & Tricks/Video
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Juergen and I are stupid, drooling idiots; a sad fact confirmed by the length of time it's taken us to finally purchase bicycles. 2 years! We're so dumb... there's no…

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Our Trip to Segovia

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:April 27, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/Food & Drink/Photography/Vocab
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Don't miss: Our Trip to Segovia: Part II In 2010, we're making good on our promise to see more of Spain! We recently spent a weekend in the gorgeous medieval…

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Xativa Castle in HD

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  • Post published:April 24, 2010
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https://vimeo.com/11186101 We returned recently to Xativa, in order to impress Mike’s parents, visiting from the castle-less USA. Since I've already taken practically every possible picture of the Xativa castle, this…

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Granada – Federico Garcia Lorca

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:March 3, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/History/Photography
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"Viento del Sur,moreno, ardiente,llegas sobre mi carne,trayéndome semillade brillantesmiradas, empapadode azahares..."- Veleta (excerpt), Federico Garcia Lorca Spain's most famous poet and the favorite son of Granada, Federico Garcia Lorca was…

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Granada – Bodega Barranco Oscuro in Las Alpujarras

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:March 1, 2010
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Midway into our drive through the Alpujarras, we stopped at Bodega Barranco Oscuro, a small family-run winery near Cádiar. It was the off-season, and just after 5pm, so I think…

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Granada – El Suspiro del Moro and Almuñécar

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:February 23, 2010
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Legend has it that when the Moors were finally conquered and kicked out of Granada, Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Al-Andalus, paused at the southern mountain pass for a…

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We're Jürgen and Mike, from Germany and the USA. We've been living in Valencia on-and-off since 2008. Much of our time is spent traveling the world with For 91 Days... but Valencia is the city we call home, and to which we'll always return.
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