Unlike last October 1 when we arrived in Valencia by train late at night during a flood, this time we arrived again from Paris but on a plane earlier in the day and to the dry conditions you normally find in this area. The sun was shining and the skies crystal clear blue. We splurged on a taxi from the airport so we would not have to drag our heavy bags up and down stairs on the Metro, and soon found ourselves in our old apartment overlooking the Torres Serrano in the heart of historic Valencia, dating from Roman times.
The cleaning lady was finishing, so we had lunch around the corner near the Torres. It was a bit warm so we ate inside. The ‘menu’ of the day was the usual 3 course affair. I had the vegetarian paella and a tuna steak for the second course. Not a bad lunch at all, and only $13 including a bottle of a decent rose wine.
Afterwards we threw our clothes into the closets and our other stuff here and there and did some grocery shopping to get us through dinner. Then we took the rest of the day to recover.
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