Mark and Anne's Adventures: Spain

For those who know us well, the planning for our trips is a thing of legend (in our own minds). Plane tickets almost a year in advance, hotels selected and ferry tickets 6 months in advance, all summarized in a detailed itinerary with carefully spaced lines, equidistant - pure Type A Beauty! The combination of moving to Texas on short notice and deciding to squeeze a trip to Spain left us planless. I personally had concerns on how we would deal with it, but so far so great. We arrived in Barcelona and had two great days. Went to the Picasso museum and explored the town. (Mark will share his thoughts on Picasso some other time.) The second highlight was a 90 minute self-guided walking tour. We downloaded the audio to our phone and found it much better than being part of a large group. And finally, our evening tapas tour - too much fun!

After a couple days in Barcelona, we hopped a train to Valencia, a beach town about 3 hours down the coast. Our goal was to relax and enjoy the sun, unfortunately for a city that publicizes 330 days a sun per year, we have not seen much in our first two days. It has not deterred us though, we explored the city and had a great Paella cooking class. Valencia claims to be the home of Paella and the class was great. We have 3 more days here and then back to Barcelona for a few days before we fly home to TEXAS. I will admit it was hard, when people asked where we were from, we would start to say California and correct it to Texas, photos below.