Valencia - food, food, food!

Valencia was a much-needed change from Barcelona. The didn´t actually do much more than eat, rest and walk, but somehow (I´m putting it down to the heat) we still managed to exhaust ourselves.

We did the usual foodie things - ate paella, bought hams, cheeses and fruits from the market and hung out at tapas bars. The city is full of little plazas where people spill out onto the cobblestoned streets. (I´m so glad Mel loves food too!)

Valencia´s river got diverted, but they turned this into a huge positive by changing it into a long park, with sports grounds, lots of grass and at one end of the city, 3 bizarre looking white buildings: a science museum (which looks like Darth Vader´s helmet - see above), an arts venue (which looks like an armadillo - see left) and an aquarium (which looks like a huge rotunda with waves on top of it).