by eric | Oct 29, 2024 | International Travel, Travel
Our main trip for Fall 2024 saw us working for the first 1.5 weeks and then take vacation for the next 1.5 weeks. The majority of our trip was spent in southern Italy, specifically Puglia, with a long weekend in London on the way, plus a two day stop in Rome and five...
by eric | Jun 12, 2024 | Daily life, International Travel, Travel
We have a lot of good memories from our month in the Russafa neighborhood. Just about anything we could possibly need could be found within a few blocks, including two large grocery stores and dozens of restaurants and bars. And just one block away was the Mercat de...
by eric | Jun 10, 2024 | Garden, International Travel, Travel
Valencia has as a lot of different gardens, some simply between streets, others as large formal gardens. Jardín del Turia The famous former Turia riverbed is now a large, winding park for the city. It has a little of everything including flowering bridges, orange...
by eric | Jun 7, 2024 | International Travel, Travel
One of the memorable moments from our 2022 visit to Valencia was stumbling across the Our Lady Of The Forsaken Festival while trying to go for a drink (never made it to that bar…). Our 2024 stay started before Easter, i.e. Holy Week, and we figured the old town...
by eric | Jun 6, 2024 | International Travel, Travel
Finding an apartment for a month in Valencia wasn’t difficult, but narrowing the choices down definitely took us some time. We started with neighborhoods of interest – on our 2022 trip we had stayed by the market in the heart of the old town, and felt that...