Ruzafa Market

Yesterday I bought a pistache green shopping cart and reached out to Ruzafa Market to buy some groceries...Here you have my new neighbourhood!!

Sunset in la Albufera

Leftt side of the image: Cream puff pastries topped with meringue and a touch of cinamon. Right side: cachaps (filled with special cream).

Natural Reserve in El Saler

A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine kindly invited me to have lunch with her family. After having a delicious traditional paella and some typical Paterna sweets called cachaps, she took me to El Saler beaches and finally to La Albufera, where we saw the sun go down. It was a wish she had to fulfill, and eventually she could!! 

Sometimes there's nothing better than having foreigners visiting you to take your time and see the place you live with renewed eyes.

Hope you enjoy the sunset and have a beautiful dawn tomorrow.

My new room

Today I've suddenly realized that I still hadn't shown you my new room. This is the place where I sleep like a log in Valencia, after having spent what is usually being a long and intense day lately.
And this is also the site where I write my posts from!! 
Have a pretty nice Sunday tomorrow. 

I'll be flying home for a short while if I survive to the firecrackers in my way to the subway!!

My mother's birthday

It is not the first year I spend away from my mother on her birthday. By contrast, almost half of my life has passed away far from the place I was born. That's the reason why, today, I want to wish you a happy happy birthday, dear mum. Be sure I'll be the first to be right there with you, despite these 700 miles between us. I love you from the top of the stars and from the bottom of my heart.

Chocolate & Pumpkin Donuts

This afternoon I went for a stroll around Ruzafa with a friend. We could see the spectacular illumination structures that are being installed for the Fallas, and, most important, I finally managed to try the famous pumpkin donuts. I'm fascinated with the wide culinary uses pumpkins are given in this region...I hope to have the time to show you the many sweet and salty ways they cook this vegetable and, of course, to try them all!! 

Hope you'll start the week on the right foot tomorrow!!

Sunday breakfast

Weird as it may seem, I love waking up early on Sunday. I love leaving out to the street knowing that the whole day is waiting to be lived. Then I feel as if I were where nobody else is, specially when I meet people returning home after having spent all the night out. I experience a kind of lucidness, as if everything was starting for me. So last sunday I gave myself a present doing exactly that: I bought the newspaper and a delicious sweet breakfast composed by some typical valencian cakes: xuxú (the longest one in the right, filled with cream),  a sweet potato cake (in the left front), some anise biscuits (the round ones in the front) and, well, a blueberries muffin filled with cheese cream (not so valencian, but it was so enticing that I couldn't resist).

Have a happy sweet Sunday!!

Sights from Valencia

Cathedral

Colon's Market

Detail of the pediment of Colon's Market

Xativa Train Station

Bullring

Somewhere in the old town

Central Market

Angel Custodio Bridge

I've been so busy this week that I haven't even had the time to select and edit some of the photos I took last weekend.  Today I woke up feeling too exhausted to do any more tourism, so I decided to go back to the images and places I was in. In doing this, I reelaborate my memories and always reach out a new flavor from every experience. Now I'd like to share with you some of my most beautiful sights from Valencia. I hope you'd also enjoy them.