Today we went to the Ciutat de les Arts i de les Ciències (City of the Arts and of the Sciences in Valencian). It’s a huge museum/cultural complex that includes a performing arts center, a science museum, an IMAX theater, an oceanarium, and a footbridge and agora still under construction. The oceanarium costs a fortune […]
Entries from August 27th, 2008
What if your life were a yogurt commercial?
August 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Photos, Spain, Travel
The science museum was generally pretty good, but a little thin on real science in some places, and a little thick on corporate marketing in others. The majority of the first floor was given over to a big exhibit on the science of superheros. It was clear they were trying to do something fun that […]
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La Tomatina!
August 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Spain, Travel
La Tomatina was amazing. It was pretty much everything I expected it would be, just hordes of people and insane tomato carnage. The only thing that really surprised me was that the tomatoes were the little plum kind. The only lame part was that there were so many people that you had to kind of […]
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Arrived in Barcelona
August 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics, Spain, Travel
I took a train to Barcelona, it was a slow regional train that took five hours to cover the 350 km between Valencia and Barcelona. I’m not a big fan of the hostel that Danny and I are staying at. It’s way outside the center of town, one stop from the end of the metro […]
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Protest in Barcelona
August 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Politics, Spain, Travel
There was a big protest march in Barcelona yesterday. They passed down Las Ramblas which is the biggest tourist drag in town. There were quite a few demonstrators. The ones in the front of the march seemed very militant. They were shouting slogans and throwing flash-bang fireworks (you can see the smoke from one in […]
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