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Back to Valencia

Friday, June 11, 2010

2:50:00 am

3 June

We went for a 3hr bike tour around the city at 11am. It was pretty fun riding around in that sort of bike. A girl's bike they say. I felt so.......... girly! All that's needed to complete the act was a straw hat, and a long flowing skirt! But the riding was pretty freaky in that crowded road conditions. Many people, many cars. After a good lunch at this place called QuQu (recommended by Sarah) we headed to Parc Guell. Lovely place. You can see all around Barce from the top! Including the strange place we were lost at the day before. I did have a lot of fun with Josh's photo-taking. Subjects are a must and all our zi pai! In different forms. Highly skilled he is I must say!

Came back in the evening and went to the supermarket where I got my 0.49euros worth of a loooonnnnng baguette and my VERY SUPER DUPER YUMMY BREADSTICKS. On my introduction to breadsticks, I went in search of them after that in every bakery we passed.

4 June

We left early in the morning at 8am for the train ride back to Valencia, a very happy me! The train was bigger, cleaner, newer, much nicer, and emptier, than the one on the way here. On reaching Valencia we had a long walk in to find our hostel which turns out to be really nice! Each room is really cute and have some sort of theme. Ash's and Ben's was a Safari room where the bed covers were LEOPARD PRINTS! There were voodoo masks and little pitchforks as decorations! Josh's and my room was a California theme. It was so big, bright and colourful! ANd Queen size beds!!! Lovely!!

We spent the rest of the day at the Science Centre! We had discount, being a student! Yay! We stayed there for over 3hrs and we didn't finsih all the exhibits. It was pretty fun and interesting though I must say! Although my legs were really dying by then. We took the bus around. An experience I must say.

We then found nice bakeries where I got breadsticks. 1.60euros Magnum was not meant to be. So we camped in this little restaurant and sat there and talked about stuffs till really late at night. It's really not that strange and bad after all to have the 3 guys for company. I mean, I could actually talk to them all happily! Except Zhiyun and Josh seems to think I'm very much like my sister...... Hmmmmm......... really? The cigarette smoke drove us back to our rooms.

5 June

I'm not a party pooper! I'm just Jiwen-sick okay? Hehe. So a very happy me ate 4 pieces of toast for breakfast! Free flow of breakfast! I think, very important at a hostel! And you can kope the packet cupcakes and cakes too for future supplement!

We walked around at the market at Valencia before heading to rest a while. After which we had like an hour's walk to the University at the outskirts. Our bikes all safe and sound. Had to take 3 taxis. The last one with Josh and me was really nice! He bothered to squeeze 2 bike boxes into a normal sized taxi! How'd he do that you ask.......... Well, one poor little girl just have to sit squashed on the floor. Even the cab driver laughed. But I liked how he was so chillax about letting me do that! I like how in every other country except Singapore, it always seems so........ chillaxing! Not so to-the-books sort of thing.

We were early and so went to eat yummy BK for lunch. Ben became my bank, exchanging euros. And thankfully the lady did not bother weighing our bike boxes at all! heheheh! Thank goodness I stuffed all my stuff in! :)

It was really nice to take off from Valencia and Josh spotted Port Saplaya from the airplane! Really nice! :) So pretty! The plane was a little empty too. We had the whole 6 seats to ourselves. So we all spreaded out! I then slept. It's pretty boring on that 2 hour flight.

We touched down at Paris early and from prior experience, everything settled fast and smooth and we were in Paris centre in no time at all. Efficiency then dropped while waiting for Ash's friends. Much better when we split up. Thanks to Claire and Joanna and other friend for bringing us around! THey were nice people! So we had 2 hours in Paris! Before getting lost in the metro cuz the lines were so unclear and we thought it stopped at this station which it didn't. But we plotted our way back and got back all safe and sound, with 35mins to spare before our plane was scheduled to take off. Some running was then involved.

The plane ride back was NOT FUN at all. All 4 of us were in a row. First there was the baggage issue. Then, the food was sooooooo disappointing! NOT NICE AT ALL! Jiwen pointed out that food coming out of Spore's always good but not going back! After watching Valentine's Day, and eating, and trying to watch a few random movies, I gave up and listened to Rach's 2 and fell asleep for an hour to 2. When I woke up, my screen refused to work. It all started with Ash's screen not working right from the start! So he got out his lappie and was watching 2009's World CHampionships cycling. Oh me oh my that was UBER COOL! I was spying (quite obviously) from my seat haha. I did tell the ppl who restarted it to no avail. So then out of total boredom I kept going to the back to get food. Or walking around. Or getting water. Just any excuse to walk around really. How boring! The guys were all sleeping for many many many hours! They then woke up very much later to join me for Haagen Daaz ice cream. The only good thing on the flight. Apparently Ben's screen was affected too. So only Josh watched shows in peace. Ratatouille! Cartoons! I was left, to day-dream all about Jiwen hehe :)

Oh, the landing was worse than Lao airlines. It was like a theme park ride. ROCKY! To the left, to the right.

Oh, I discovered how uber unhealthy croissants are! Oh my goodness! The number I ate in Spain!!

I enjoyed myself alot and many thanks to the guys for taking care of me. To Ashley for organising so many stuffs. To Ben for lending me money. To Josh for all the added fun hehe! And to all the others for taking care of me! Angie is so like a mum hehehe.

Happy memories! :)

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