We just wrapped up a two-day visit to Valencia. Coming from the bustle of Barcelona, it was a nice change of pace to be in a smaller city. We really liked the old center as well as a newer neighborhood where we had ourselves a little tapas crawl the first night.<\/p>\n
While we were never mistaken for being French, Belgian or Dutch, so far many people have taken Brent for a Spaniard. We think it\u2019s because of the beard. We\u2019re curious if people will still think he is Spanish when the beard goes to just mustache (aka, crumb catcher) in Sevilla.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the second day we were feeling under the weather, so we didn\u2019t do much. We did make it out to the beach to have paella (traditionally served only at lunch) at the place where it all started.\u00a0 After lunch, we were admiring a sandcastle when the builder\/bum offered to take a photo of us with it. We took a chance and handed over our camera. We thought we were going to have a Clark Griswold moment when he kept backing up with our camera saying, \u201dIts better if I take it from back here\u201d and eventually hopped over the concrete wall that separated the beach from the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
Obviously, when you\u2019re on the road for so long, every day can\u2019t be the greatest. That afternoon, we laid around feeling sick and tired and catching up on Lost. In our room, we pieced together a dinner of pistachios, dried fruit, and leftover cheese. We still managed to stay up past midnight trying to figure out the dialogue of\u00a0 \u201cLove Wrecked\u201d a cheesy teen movie that was dubbed over in Spanish.<\/p>\n
We really liked Valencia even though we probably didn\u2019t enjoy it to the fullest. After a lot of consideration, we decided our next stop would be Sevilla, which is supposed to be great, but a long way from Valencia\u2026eight and half hours by train.\u00a0 We figured more naptime on the train couldn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We just wrapped up a two-day visit to Valencia. Coming from the bustle of Barcelona, it was a nice change of pace to be in a smaller city. We really liked the old center as well as a newer neighborhood where we had ourselves a little tapas crawl the first night.
\nWhile we were never mistaken for being French, Belgian or Dutch, so far many people have taken Brent for a Spaniard. We think it\u2019s because of the beard. We\u2019re curious if people will still think he is Spanish when the beard goes to just mustache (aka, crumb catcher) in Sevilla.
\nUnfortunately, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}