Valencia, Spain - agenda; mail postcards. Placa de L'Ajuntament.

 The plan for today was to go into Valencia and find the city hall square, where the main post office is located and check out the main train station. We got up early and got ready to catch the bus and it poured! So we settled for a relaxed morning, lunch and see what the weather was like for the afternoon bus in.

While we were standing at the bus stop this weather was moving out and

 

this weather was coming in.

We took the bus all the way to the bus station and then headed into the old city.

Stopped for coffee, hot chocolate and a bathroom and Rick and I tried to figure out the narrow, crooked streets of the old city. He's into google maps on the phone and I am "old school". Photo by Nicola.

The Quart Gate again with its damage from the Napoleonic and Spanish Civil wars.

We were happy if we were just going in the right general direction as there is lots to see.

Photo by Nicola.

We found our way down to Placa de L'Ajuntament. This is the square in front of City Hall and it is surrounded by very large, elegant, "expensive realestate" (to quote Dave) edifices. The square itself is fenced off right now as every afternoon and evening there are huge firework displays as part of the Fallas celebration.

This meant that we couldn't get far enough back to get good pictures of the buildings.

They were topped with statues and fancy additions.

The square was also "littered with" flower stalls. The colours and scents reaching out to get attention.

And beds of geraniums.

This is what we were here for

as Nic and Dave had postcards to mail. Done!

With that mission accomplished we were on to the next

but that's for tomorrows post as its after 9pm and I've done 13,000 steps today. Too tired for more blogging.