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The decision is made….. - 11 Apr 2008
….and the city wins. We have decided we are not quite yet ready for a relaxing quiet life out of the city – we have had too much time in Milton Keynes – now we need to have life!! :-D So we will move into the city apartment and have to cycle to see the [...]
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Decision time…. A flat in the centre of Valencia or just outside with a great view? - 10 Apr 2008
So we have spent the entire day looking at properties around Valencia with Mairead who has done a fantastic job of searching for properties for us. We are now at the end of the day and faced with our decision between two properties. One in centre of Valencia: And one on the outskirts by [...]
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Thursday we might see the future… - 08 Apr 2008
Tomorrow we fly to Valencia to start a long weekend and on Thursday we have lots of flats in and around Valencia to see. It is quite exciting – but it will also be very rushed – it will be hard to make a decision in one day – but for this reason we hope [...]
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Valencian new year celebrations - 01 Jan 2008
They do things different here – don’t you know! Firstly the bars all shut at 9pm on New year’s Eve – reopening at 00:30 the following year! At midnight youPensando nisso, criei uma lista com alguns sites legais que disponibilizam sons e toques polifonicos claro grátis para celular, além de outros recursos. have to eat [...]
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Ghost towns - 28 Dec 2007
Whilst we are here we are touring around on our bikes and trying to work out which areas are which. We have looked at adverts for flats to rent in estate agent windows and also in the local newspapers and have seen various areas advertised and now have a rough idea of the prices for [...]
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Merry Christmas from Valencia - 25 Dec 2007
Here is a little video we shot on the beach when the weather was not so good on Sunday:
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Where we are in Valencia - 23 Dec 2007
To explain where we are in relation to the city I took a photo of this map yesterday, I’ve added a couple of arrows to show where the important parts are. It takes us about 35 minutes to cycle from Pinedo to Valencia. One interesting thing about Valencia is that they moved the river (Turia) [...]
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There are paddy fields in Spain!!! - 23 Dec 2007
I never knew that! Outside our window is a paddy field – in fact for about a mile in front of the window there are paddy fields. As soon as you start to think about it – suddenly paella makes sense – but still a bit of trivia I did not know! Apparently the Valencia [...]
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First impressions of Valencia / Spain - 23 Dec 2007
So we arrived two days ago and I guess it worth talking about my first impressions of this part of Spain. First of all the airport – we landed through cloud and fog and then they had to park the plane for a few minutes. The pilot announced that unfortunately there was still a plane [...]
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So the news is out – we are leaving the UK! - 21 Dec 2007
We have been talking about it for a while and now we have decided to just do it! The excitement and the speculation that lasted for months earlier this year about whether we might get an opportunity to go to Stuttgart with Nicole’s work and then disappointment of the eventual bad news that the deal [...]
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