Spain - Day 5

We woke at 7:35 to the sound of fireworks, obviously a good time for it...

We went hunting for breakfast at a local cafe, everyone is hungover and recovering from yesterday's festival. The service was the slowest ever but it was good when it came.

We went to pick up the car from where we'd left it, only to find it had a parking ticket for 80 euros. So much for that woman yesterday telling us that it was free! Seems the only person who could get up this morning was the bloody traffic warden.

On the road to Valencia, Steve spent the journey arguing with BMW, but the good news is that the bike is fixed so we just need to get it to the right city now and we can ride home.

Along the way, stood on the road was a massive vulture just sat there, this thing was about 3 foot tall and looked proper evil.

Soon we were in Valencia and took a walk around town, starting off with going to the food market. It was huge and sold everything. We queued for a while to get a seat at a popular place inside, it would have been a 5 min queue but the Spanish take forever in doing anything. They ask for the bill, the bill comes, oh I'm going to need some money, let me rummage around in my bag for 15 mins while still talking, maybe smoke a cigarette, make a house of cards, a mini siesta, they, yea , pay the bill.

Steve has clearly worked out some tactics when ordering tapas, just get stuff with cheese or fish on it and Mark will stay away. After some cheesecake and squid beer we were full.

After lunch we went to the church where the Holy Grail was, we defeated the black night but couldn't get past the ticket guy who wanted 7 euros to look at it. Whatever happened to Christian charity where you need to pay to go in a church to look at something?

We did go up on the church tower though, the views over Valencia were great and really showed the stunning architecture of the place. There was a massive bell at the top and when it rang we nearly poo'd ourselves!

After a walk around town, we sat in a cafe to rest our legs, in the square were some people setting up for something by trying to lay down a huge piece of polythene in the wind and measure this and plug in that. However after an hour they hadn't done shit, so we still have no clue what was going on.

We opted to go back to the hotel for a rest and then eat out of town to avoid the tourist traps. We found this nice streetside place full of locals and ordered so much tapas that the owner even joked that we now looked pregnant. We were going to give it a five star review too!

Both bloated we rolled back to the hotel to call it a night.