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Requena’s Sausage Fest: The Aftermath

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:February 15, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/Festivals/Food & Drink
  • Post comments:4 Comments

On Saturday morning, we bundled up and took the train from Valencia's Sant Isidre station to Requena; a beautiful 90-minute continuous ascent into the mountains. Snow was falling, lightly dusting…

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Granada – The Nazrid Palaces of the Alhambra

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:February 5, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/Photography/Travel
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I gave myself up, during my sojourn in the Alhambra, to all the romantic and fabulous traditions connected with the pile. I lived in the midst of an Arabian tale,…

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Artichoke Festival in Benicarló

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:January 21, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/Events/Festivals
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Artichoke Fun Fact! The origin of artichokes is a mystery, though they're thought to be natively from North Africa. Benicarló is a small seaside town on the northern end of…

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A UFO in Xàtiva?

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  • Post published:January 13, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/Photography
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We’ve been telling you about the history of Xàtiva and taking you up to the castle and now we will bombard you with photos taken shortly before Three Kings Day.…

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Day Trip to Xàtiva

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:January 7, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/Photography
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Earlier this week, we wrote about the history of Xàtiva -- a wonderful little city an hour south of Valencia. Easy to reach by train, Xàtiva makes a great day…

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Xàtiva – Introduction & History

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:January 4, 2010
  • Post category:Day Trips/History
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This weekend we took our first trip to Xàtiva, a small city of almost thirty thousand about 50 minutes south of Valencia. I'm sure we'll be going back -- easy…

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El Palmar and the Albufera – Another visit

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  • Post published:December 28, 2009
  • Post category:Day Trips/Photography/Things to Do
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We already blogged about our day trip to El Palmar but we recently went back. A visit to El Palmar is also highly recommended during the fall and winter months.…

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El Puig’s Medieval Festival for Jaume I

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:December 14, 2009
  • Post category:Day Trips/Festivals/History
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This weekend, El Puig, a small town about 25 minutes north of Valencia by train, celebrated its liberator King James I. In 1238, he took El Puig and used the…

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Day Trip to Peñíscola

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:December 1, 2009
  • Post category:Day Trips/Photography/Things to Do
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A generation of movie goers can be forgiven for thinking that Valencia occupies a peninsular hill, protected by massive walls and a looming castle. The 1961 epic El Cid starred…

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Summer Festivals in the Valencian Community

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:July 27, 2009
  • Post category:Culture/Day Trips/Festivals
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A huge number of festivals and events occur in villages throughout the Valencian Community, during the hot months of August and September. Here's a quick rundown of some of the…

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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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