In school, the kids are learning ...
- Spain has 17 autonomous regions (kind of like states in the US)
- Each region is made up of one or more provinces ... there are 50 provinces
- The Community of Valencia includes three provinces: Valencia, Alicante, and Castellón.
We live in the city of Valencia (which is the capital of the Comunidad de Valencia region). The kids had a 4 day weekend last weekend, so we thought we would take one of those days to travel to another province of Valencia. We went to Castellón ... about an hour north.
We had a whole list of places to see and things to do. Somehow, the day turned into one of
our typical traveling days ... which is probably nothing like the typical tourist day.
The kids jumped rope and we watched bocce ball at Ribalta Park.
We prayed for victims of violence.
We "adopted" a Spanish grandfather ... Vicente Hernandez.
We went to Saint Nicholas to join in their Saint Nicholas Day festivities. (Either we got the information wrong or we were the only people who showed up.)
We oggled and smelled the fish at the central market and then ate strawberries.
We took a "shortcut" that got us to nowhere.
We watched construction.
We walked along the country road ... saw a herd of sheep, guard geese (that squawked loudly as we passed), and a poinsettia TREE!!
We watched the sunset.
They also have cool museums, art exhibits, theatre, festivals, etc. Maybe we'll see those someday.
More photos of Castellón ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abrownell/sets/72157603444285310/
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