Day 42: Just a Saturday in Valencia

This week, my Saturday in Valencia included:

• Wake up late after only having gone to bed at around 4:00.
• Have a leisurely Almuerzo (having slept through Desayuno) at home.
• Stroll along the Mediterranean Sea towards a brunch date with friends. Have your husband join in on the stroll so he gets to see the sea, too.
• Have Comida with friends from the US and UK, talking about all manner of things and stay long enough to enjoy sobremesa.

My first Tortilla de Patatas and where it happened, Boa Brunch

• Stroll home along the sea shore and realize this is your life now.

This is your li-i-i-ife, live it your own way. :)

• Take the bus into the city center to go to an American style barbecue hosted by your Romanian classmate from Spanish class.
• Stop at a shop along the way that advertised at the bus stop and, without a fuss, buy some bras that fit (a really big deal and something I could rarely do in the US and didn’t expect to be able to do in Spain).
• Sit on a terrace, sipping wine and eating yummy food, with your Spanish class friends, one of whom brought her husband (who is from Chicago). All immigrants: 3 Chicagoans, 1 New Yorker, 1 Romanian (who came here from Canada), and 1 Polish/French woman (who used to live in Chicago).

The diners

• Experience sobremesa for a 2nd time in one day, enjoying everyone’s company until after midnight, and learn new things about how Spain works.

Spain is not playing with their anti-smoking warnings.

• Give up on a cab to get you home and head for the metro instead, and enjoy the quiet walk from the station as you make your way home.

Midnight riders. :)

• Discover the joy of a heavy comforter on a crisp night as you climb into bed to rest up for tomorrow.