Day: September 12, 2016

Burriana / Holidays

Everybody loves a good parade

The Burrianenses really seem to know how to throw a good festival. We returned our rental car to the Valencia airport on Wednesday and took a train back here, so we are without our own transportation now. So, of course, we did not make it to the market here on Wednesday, and then woke up Thursday to find everywhere closed because it was a holiday… and the same on Friday, too. Oops. I am pleased to report we survived despite our lack of preparedness with nowhere being open, and the festivities seem to have more than made up for the inconvenience. Here is

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Food / Valencia

Look at Dreamer navigatin’…

This is from our day in Valencia. Dreamer loves the Google Maps app. Really takes charge… Got us to the Central Market in Valencia, where I was able to buy lots of fresh shellfish and have it cooked at a restaurant right outside the market. Oysters from Galicia pictured below, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. The rest was simply too messy (read: delicious) to safely get a picture of. Percebes (goose neck barnacles) came next, followed by langostinos, then two giant shrimp. Oh yes, my friends, this is just the first of many dispatches from the Shellfish

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