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Festival de las Naciones

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:May 27, 2010
  • Post category:Festivals
  • Post comments:1 Comment

It's been going on for a couple weeks now, but we finally made it down to the Festival of Nations in the Turia riverbed, near the Alameda metro station. The…

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Festival of Nations 2009

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:May 20, 2009
  • Post category:Culture/Festivals/Food & Drink/Things to Do
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Lacking a little culture in your day-to-day life? Feel like jamming out to some bongo drumming? Getting sick of Spanish paella and arroz del horno? All valid reasons to head…

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World’s Longest Cable Car in Valencia?

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:May 15, 2009
  • Post category:Bizarre/News
  • Post comments:2 Comments

Is Valencia about to get the world's longest cable car? That's the plan being put forth by a group called Telefèrico Valencia. They're proposing a cable car which would run…

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Opening Today: Wine Festival in the Turia

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:April 1, 2009
  • Post category:Festivals/Food & Drink/Things to Do
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If you're looking for me between the hours of 7 to 10pm tonight (April 1st), or from 11am to 10pm on the 2nd through 5th, head down to the Turia…

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Sunday Soccer in the Turia

  • Post author:mpowell
  • Post published:January 27, 2009
  • Post category:Entertainment/Sports
  • Post comments:3 Comments

Sunday afternoons, the dusty soccer fields near the Torres de Serrano come alive with fast-paced matches between Valencia's club teams. There's a festival atmosphere to the whole thing. Often, up…

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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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