The Japanese wildebeest stampede.

Trip Start Oct 06, 2004
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Monday, October 2, 2006

I have just spent a long weekend with Johana in Valencia and Alcossebre. We headed down to Valencia by train on Friday evening, and arriving late at night we headed directly for the town. Johana knew of a cool place called Las Ánimas (basically a roof top chill out club), so that's where we ended up until the early hours. In fact we arrived back at the hotel just a few minutes before breakfast at 7AM. While waiting for the breakfast room to open, I headed for the bathroom. I am not the quickest guy around, but swear I was in there for less than two minutes, so I was a bit surprised when I found 30 Japanese senior citizens singing happy birthday in broken English, and all wanting to take photos when I came back out from the loo. Thanks Johana! As we were first in line for breakfast and both pretty tired, we hoped for a quick breakie before sleeping until check-out hours. Unfortunately we were both wrong as we didn't take into account a Japanese wildebeest stampede on a 48 hour swipe around Spain..
01 Valencia.
01 Valencia.
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After visiting some friends of Johana in Valencia on Saturday afternoon, it was time to head for my apartment in Alcossebre, about 90 minutes north by train. My parents, who are currently in Alcossebre on a holiday, met us at the train station. Meet the parents the no Gaylord Focker way! Over the next couple of days we did very little indeed. All we asked for was plenty of sun, swimming in the Mediterranean sea, good food, wine and luckily no partying for once. And that's just what we got... I'm not complaining when it's still 30 degrees Celsius in early October.

So how's my Spanish these days? It has surely improved over the last few months, but when Johana told me that my Dad (who knows how to say cerveza, la cuenta, Noruega and apparently aqui) got a better Spanish accent than me, I once again felt like throwing in the towel...
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