Hello from Valencia (Spain’s 3rd largest city after Madrid and Barcelona). It is VERY windy here today! Mark and I took the shuttle bus from our yacht to the city centre for breakfast, browsing the shops and people watching. Valencia is a large port city and again, enjoyed the architecture of the area. Paul and Kathy chose to do a cooking tour to learn to make paella.
But we so enjoy the
charm and ambiance of the smaller towns and yesterday sweet Valldemosa was a real treat. We were on the island of Majorca in the
port city of Soller. Those of us who
chose this tour saw spectacular scenery and many trees (olive, almond, lemon
and orange), along with a tour of a monastery, palace, a walk thru the town and
a popular potato pastry for this region.
Our weather has been
superb – lots of sunshine with cool temps in the mornings and evenings and
daytime, in the mid-upper 60’s-70’s The
food is wonderful! We are having a fabulous time on this “Splendors
of Southern Spain” cruise.
Tonight we leave for
Cartegena
1 comment:
Hi Pat: So glad you are enjoying your trip with nice weather and great food. We too love the small towns. Yes, the architecture in southern Spain was so lovely and different, very moorish since the Moors spent 300 years there if I remember correctly. We loved the island of Majorca also. We saw so many windmills there and it was so flat. We went to the pearl factory and also toured the main town. It was probably the same one you talked about because we saw a palace which they told us President Clinton had stayed there at one time. We just returned home yesterday and I finally had a chance to check your blog. We had paella one night in Barcelona, but everyone agreed it was not the best they had ever eaten. Must have been the restaurant's version being different from what we had enjoyed some other time. Have a great time on the remainder of your trip. See you at Thanksgiving. Love, Judy
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