Valencia
We joined our normal "free" walking tour as we find it gives us a good overview of the city when you first arrive. This tour leader was a bit of a lecturing type but her information, stories and explanations were good. They also help you find things that you wouldn't normally notice, we had visited the cathedral the night before but how had we missed the mummified arm of St Vincent in a glass case and a room that supposedly had the Holy Grail from the last supper?
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| There's the narrowest building in the world |
After the tour we took advantage of the fact that entrance fees are free on a Sunday and visited the Archaeological Centre built over part of the original Roman city. After that we found ourselves watching the arrival of a huge statue of the Virgin of the Helpless in something resembling the Popemobile. People were not only touching and kissing the clothing but also the sticker of the statue on the door of the transport vehicle.
There are lots of little girls around the cities dressed in beautiful communion dresses and lots of weddings that if you can't see you can hear by all the fireworks. Today, especially this morning there were lots of people dressed in their Sunday best, people here dress very elegantly on their days off.
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