Valencia – Fallas (En)
Finally yesterday we went to Valencia to see the fallas (effigies) and we got lucky and did not rain. Ben, Andreas (our German friend from the camping) and I took the train to Valencia, just outside the train station we saw our first falla dedicated to star wars. Then we went to the Town Hall square to see the biggest falla of Valencia of 22 metres and we followed the route my cousin told me, stopping in every falla we saw. The fallas have a little falla next to the big one, the little falla is the children’s falla. In every street where there are fallas there are places selling drinks and food, so the streets are very lively and fun. We bought half litres sangria each for 2 euros and we went to enjoy it!
To follow the route my cousin suggested we have to pass through 2 towers, we were a little lost before we found the towers, which you can go in and to the top. After passing through the towers were a big falla, from there we went to the old town, where some children with the typical dresses posed for me and where we saw small parades of girls and boys with typical dresses and music and some really cool fallas.
We stopped to have a drink in an Irish Pub in the old town and then we started to come back to the train station. We arrive near the Town Hall square again and it was a really cool falla dedicated to art. In the square, they were giving the prices to the different groups of falleros, thousand of groups from every sector of the city, so I did a video so you can see the typical dresses etc.
We went back to the train station and I finally took a picture of it. We near lost the train because you have to pay 0,60 cents to go to the toilet and we only have coins for one person, so Ben and Andreas went to look for another toilet outside the train station, and the train was leaving. In the end, they arrived and we run and got in when the doors were closing. If we lost the train we have to wait 40 minutes! When we arrived at Cullera we decided to walk from the train station to the centre of the city and we stopped in a beer place really animated and full of people to have a beer with free tapas.
Next Saturday we will see the Cullera fallas and how they burn them at night. And on Sunday we will go with my cousins to eat the typical paella from Valencia. So more to come in the next blogs!
