Today’s blog is proof that our calendar has been full of an eclectic variety of activities and there is even more fun on the horizon. This week we managed to ‘see‘ art and ‘be‘ art all in the same week! Hooray for us!
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Paperwork is finalized! We are now official. Yeah!! And we managed our first hair cut! A successful week! Now we can start to branch out across Spain. Plans are already in motion. Things are about to get more exciting.
On any adventure it is important to have some way to measure your progress. One measurement of our time spent in Valencia is our ability to communicate.
On the Friday of Semana Santa (Holy Week) we attended a very solemn procession near the beach in Playa de la Malvarrosa.
We have been in Spain now for six weeks and are settling in. We are both surprised at how comfortable we are with our new life style. There are a few things we do miss about our life back home.
Las Fallas is over proclaiming the coming of spring and Valencia has responded beautifully. The days are getting warmer, trees are in bloom and Semana Santa (Easter) celebrations are upon us – and today we change residences.
Under the category of “No Rest for the Wicked” we dragged our tired bodies out of bed at 8:00AM this morning to once more address the issues around our rental contract. We have learned the hard way that, after staying up to midnight (or 2:00AM for the Cremá) too many nights in a row, requires more than a single night’s rest to catch back up.
La Cremà, the cream on top, the cherry on your ice cream, the pièce de résistance. Whatever you call it, this event certainly lives up to its name. La Cremà brings to an end the festival of Las Fallas and is the time when they burn all the fallas in the city; all 350+ of them.
During the festival of Las Fallas many of the communities of Valencia build small (fallas Infantil), medium (fallas Premios) and massive (fallas Especial) Fallas or Monuments. The Fallas Especial are amazing fallas which can reach heights of 70 feet or more. They are stunning to say the least.
Las Fallas is a 3-week festival. For days and days we enjoyed spotting many lovely falleras and chicas (ladies and children) walking around in full costume. It was difficult not to want to take a picture every time we saw one of them. The richly patterned dresses are beautiful, as are the shoes, combs in the braided hair and jewelry. The falleras are out in public during Las Fallas to draw attention to their community falla.
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