Day Once (11): Valencia City, The tower and shopping

The day started off waking up later than usual because we got a sleep in yay! we walked to the metro train and got off at valencia city where we met Ramon, which is one of the schola staff, who was going to show us around.  The first sight we went to view was the bull ring and the train station which were very impressive.  The train station had amazing marbled ceilings which made it unique to any train station we had seen.  The bull ring was extreamly impressive, although we wished we went inside to exprerience it more. 

We then walked down to the market which Huw and Keith told us it was a clothes market so we was all excited...turned out it was a FOOD market which mainly sold meats and fish.  The whole group wasnt impresed untill........ WE SEEN A RABBIT SKINNED WITH HIS EYEBALLS STILL INTACK, which made the group feel sick but also made our day.  We then walked past another meat stall and sawa chicken hanging upside down by its feet with an orange in its mouth.

After The show we took a 20 minute walk to the basilica de la virgen da los desamparados (a big tall tower).  This church has the 2 of the most important religous structures after the cathedreal which is next to it. We climbed the tower, plodding up 201 stairs!! About ten minuets of pain later, we arrived at the top which was beautiful, you could see the whole of Valencia and could see some amazing sites.  For example the football stadium which we visited in the week and the the Oceanographic which were going to see tomorrow!

After walking down the 201 steps AGAIN, we had lunch and smoothies outside the cathederal where we haggled with the lucky lucky ten dollar fellas. After spending half an hour haggleing, we made our way to the main shopping strip of valencia.  It was very busy and impressive, although none of us knew where any good shops were.  We spent an hour and a half trapsing up and down and in and out looking for good shops we knew of, but no luck as we only found one. We then met back at the bull ring where we voted whether we wanted to stay or go the decision was to go.  On the way back to the convent, some of the group went to try the famous spanish drink 'orxata', which is made out of tiger nuts with added suger and milk.  It was tasty but sickly at the same time. We then all went back to the hotel where we had a few hours sleep and went to tea around 8:45pm...now were sitting here doing the blog!

adios goodnight Gemma and Jake Foley xx