Inge visiting us in Valencia

Mar 28, 2009 Published under holidays, Las Fallas, life in Valencia, trips, web stuff 1,719 views

Right before I started writing this post I had a slice of bread with yummie Marmite and now I am drinking a cup of tea with a delicious stroopwafel.

Our first Mascleta

Mar 02, 2009 Published under events, Las Fallas, life in Valencia 455 views

We have to admit and can confirm that a Mascleta definitely has more ear-deafening fireworks than anything we have ever heard in China!

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Pam visiting Valencia for the weekend

Mar 02, 2009 Published under holidays, Las Fallas, life in Valencia 327 views

Our good friend Pam just left us yesterday after visiting us in Valencia for the weekend. Pam arrived on Thursday afternoon and after freshing up we went to meet Mia on the terrace of Lisboa. It was great seeing each other again, last time I saw Pam was in September on a boat in the Amsterdam canals.

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beautiful light

Oct 29, 2008 Published under education, food, life in Valencia 158 views

A weird day today. It seemed all right waking up in the sunlight, but it was extremely cold. Read on the news that a cold front has arrived in Spain and the first snow has already fallen in the north. In Madrid it has been raining heavily causing flooded roads and lots of traffic jams. [...]

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my 2nd day in school

Oct 07, 2008 Published under education, food, life in Valencia 160 views

When I arrived at school yesterday they had made some changes as my co-student canceled an hour before. So instead of giving me 4hrs per day, they changed it now into two hours per day for the first week, but then guaranteed private lessons, plus on Monday 4 hours private class. Well, that’s ok with [...]

move to Valencia – Sept 17

Sep 17, 2008 Published under move to Valencia 70 views

Time to pack my stuff again as I was flying to Valencia. Rene brought me to the airport and off I went. Valencia airport is tiny, similar to Aruba, and in the arrival hall I headed to the tourist-info. As there was some kind of fair going on in town, I had not been able [...]