Valencia, Spain - random pictures

My plans to take the bus into Valencia went out the window when I awoke to a downpour. By the time it had stopped, early afternoon, I no longer felt adventurous. So this post just has some random stuff.

There was a coastal weather warning today (in Spanish, but I think it referred to waves or flooding). There wasn't a lot of wind but the waves were really rolling in and I could hear them thundering from inside the apartment.

 

They built during the course of the day.

So I settled in for a leisurely, 2 cups of coffee, morning. It took a while but I have figured out how to get a coffee I like out of the machine. Fill a third of the cup with milk and put it in the microwave for a minute, then use one pod of expresso and one pod of decaf. One teaspoon of honey.

Not exactly the same (I can't make the pretty heart shape in the foam) but pretty close to my flat white order at Starbucks.

The coffee cups in the apartment are rather small so I bought 2 larger ones.

When the rain stopped I headed out to the grocery store, checking out the waves on the way.

No beach to be walked on today as the water had come right up to the dunes.

Found another place where the feral cats are being fed. They all look in pretty good shape.

The supermarket (Mercadona) has an area where you can get ham cut right off the leg, or prepackaged. It is a Spanish specialty.

 Jamón ibérico (Spanish: [xaˈmon iˈβeɾiko]; Spanish for "Iberian ham"), known in Portuguese as presunto ibérico ( Portuguese: [pɾɨˈzũtu iˈβɛɾiku]), is a variety of jamón or presunto, a type of cured leg of pork (primarily Black Iberian pigs) produced in Spain and Portugal, in the Iberian Peninsula. from wikipedia

Not always easy to find anchovies at home but no problem here.

 

You can pay 2Euro for wine here, and you can pay 10 Euro. I have been taking the middle of the road at about 3 to 5 Euro ( still under $10)

One finished, one just opened, both under 5 Euro. Both lovely.

After lunch (Gazpacho, I bought a jar of it) I started working on my next painting. I love Bird of Paradise. It usually takes me a couple of days to finish a painting. When I leave it and come back to it I can see where it needs work.