We were booked on a tour with First Festival Travel to attend La Tomatina, the giant tomato fight. We stayed in a dorm at an excellent hostel sharing with 2 other girls, 1 Brit and 1 Kiwi who were really lovely. It crossed our mind that they had requested an all girls dorm and that the organisers had thought Niki was a “girl”. hehe
Valencia was really fabulous, we had perfect weather and it is such a nice city with lovely sights to see and fantastic markets so close to our hostel. Being on the tour was awesome too as they planned stuff every night and we had a really good group at our hostel. Our particular tour had 600 people on it but that was spread over 4 or 5 hostels...but there were at least six other “La Tomatina” tours operating in Valencia at the time, meaning the streets were crowded with kiwis and aussies!
That first afternoon we explored the town a bit, found me a pair of pretty sunglasses
and Niki a man singlet at the markets and then caught the bus to the beach which was sooo gorgeous. It is such a wide wide beach, yellow sand and the water was so lovely and clear and a perfect temperature. The next afternoon we met up with Toni and Debra at the beach for a couple of hours, it was great to see them and we got some good tips about Barcelona, where they’d just been and we were next heading to! On our last morning (as our train didn’t leave until 3pm) we made ourselves get up and we took a bus out to the science museum to check out all the crazy architecture and spent a couple of informative hours in the museum itself.
Valencia was really fabulous, we had perfect weather and it is such a nice city with lovely sights to see and fantastic markets so close to our hostel. Being on the tour was awesome too as they planned stuff every night and we had a really good group at our hostel. Our particular tour had 600 people on it but that was spread over 4 or 5 hostels...but there were at least six other “La Tomatina” tours operating in Valencia at the time, meaning the streets were crowded with kiwis and aussies!That first afternoon we explored the town a bit, found me a pair of pretty sunglasses
and Niki a man singlet at the markets and then caught the bus to the beach which was sooo gorgeous. It is such a wide wide beach, yellow sand and the water was so lovely and clear and a perfect temperature. The next afternoon we met up with Toni and Debra at the beach for a couple of hours, it was great to see them and we got some good tips about Barcelona, where they’d just been and we were next heading to! On our last morning (as our train didn’t leave until 3pm) we made ourselves get up and we took a bus out to the science museum to check out all the crazy architecture and spent a couple of informative hours in the museum itself.
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