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Granada – The Cathedral & Royal Chapel

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:February 16, 2010
  • Post category:Photography/Travel
  • Post comments:2 Comments

Our hotel, Casa de Federico, was within spitting distance of the city cathedral, and so it was the first bit of sightseeing we did while in Granada. The church is…

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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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Video of the Alhambra

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  • Post published:February 13, 2010
  • Post category:Travel/Video
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToS_luYe-H0 Get your Shisha out and pour yourself some Arabic tea to get you in the mood for 1001 Arabian Nights, and let the video do the rest. More from…

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Dum Dum Dum Dum…. SAUSAGETIME!

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:February 12, 2010
  • Post category:Festivals/Food & Drink
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Tomorrow, we are on our way to Sausage Land! Where sugar, spice, and all the other things which make up little girls... are crammed into pig intestines AND CONSUMED!!! Longaniza,…

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2010 Ninot Exhibition

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:February 10, 2010
  • Post category:Events/Fallas/Photography
  • Post comments:7 Comments

Psst. Hey, you. Yeah you, with the shifty eyes and trench coat. You wanna see some sexy ninots? Sure you do, partner. We got your sexy ninots right here. One…

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Our Trip to Granada

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:February 3, 2010
  • Post category:Travel
  • Post comments:13 Comments

At the end of January, Jürgen and I took our first major Spanish road trip, and we chose to visit Granada. After almost two years in Spain, this was the…

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What is Fallas?

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  • Post published:July 14, 2009
  • Post category:Fallas/Festivals/Photography
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It boggles our minds how little Fallas is known outside Spain, and how little media coverage this festival (one of the world's largest) receives. There are different speculations on how…

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Despertà 2009 — Welcome to Hell, Kid

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:February 23, 2009
  • Post category:Bizarre/Fallas
  • Post comments:17 Comments

Ah, Sundays. There's nothing better than sleeping in on a lazy Sunday morning, taking your time with breakfast, coffee, the paper. Disbelief and a gratifying sense of shame when you…

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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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