Arrival in Spain

I arrived in Valencia last night after a long trip from Honolulu. All things considered, the trip went pretty good. Aside from most airplane seats being waaaayyyy too close together, the only problem occurred in Madrid when, long story short, I got charged twice for my flight to Valencia. In the end I made it here more or less on time, though, and the hotel is super nice.

I’m here for some training on RESON bathymetry equipment and to hang out for a week after that doing whatever. Basically this means that I will eventually get reimbursed for my plane ticket, five nights of the hotel and five days of food. Bonus.

As I’ve only been in Valencia for a little over 12 hours, most of which were spent sleeping, I don’t have much to say right now. The beach looks pretty nice. It’s really wide and long and has lots of open spaces around it for biking and walking and stuff. It would be totally covered in hotels if it were in the US. There are lots of little bars and restaurants nearby that all seem to sell the same thing…paella.

Valencia is the birthplace of paella and I was looking forward to eating a lot of different kinds while I’m here. Apparently I’m going to have to make some friends, or at least one friend, before I can do that. Every restaurant charges per person, with a minimum of two people for all of their paella dishes. I did find one exception last night at a place that had paella as part of the menu del dia, which is just a fixed meal, like the special of the day. It was ok, but I think I think they kind of half-assed it, because there was only one of me and what was I going to do about it. I’ll let you know when I recruit some paella eaters to join me for the real deal.

The only other thing I’ve done here is eat breakfast which was included with the room. This usually means some bread, cereal and crappy eggs. Here at Las Arenas, they have one of the best breakfasts I have seen. The spread reminded me of some king’s feast you might see in a movie except there was no wine or mead. This being the fancy kind of resort that caters to their guests' wants and needs, I’ll see if I can remedy that tomorrow. Ciao for now, malditos!

Return of SuperTrippin'

OK. It has been a very long time since I've posted on here, and somehow the pages got all messed up and I haven't figured out how to fix that yet. I'll be working on that soon and in the meantime throwing down some posts from Spain. When I return from Spain, I've got some stuff from Vietnam, Sweden, Norway, Australia and maybe the Bahamas.