Vamos to Valencia
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 1) great food. 2) great cocktails. 3) beautiful architecture. 4) gorgeous weather. 5) need I say more? When me and Ash got back from our first holiday together to Bratislava in February, I was straight on Skyscanner the day we got back to book in our next trip. When we found return flights to Valencia for £50 in July, it’s needless to say that it was booked 5 minutes later! Valencia is somewhere that had been on my list for a while, having absolutely loved the other places in mainland Spain that I’ve been to, so I was excited to see what it had to offer. Despite being dirt cheap, our flight times were pretty perfect so we left Birmingham at 11am and arrived at our hotel at around 4pm local time. Knowing how hot it would be at that time of year, we’d considered a pool an essential (even though it wasn’t a sunbathing holiday) and chosen the Blanq Carmen Hotel. The hotel was beautiful and I was very happy with our pick – even more so when we got ...