Europe I

Europe I

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Valencia

Museum of ceramics

Illegal photograph in the museum of ceramics from a locked door 🙂

inside the museum

it's B-E-A-utiful in there

say what?

...

hable Espagnol?

Churches, they keep inspiring me in a non religious way

Water chestnuts

That is one big tree!

Red-masked parakeet

Working out!

Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias

Opera

Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias

Museum

Hemisphere

Hawai

Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias

Pink...

101 year old train station

Mercado Central

Bunuelos

Torras

Big bombas

Valencia

Mercado des frutas

Jamones

Uggh!

Gravity working!

Spikes

Pregnant tree

Cannibalism among ducks?

That's not for playing!

Whiiiiiiiiiii

Mister Squirrel

I'm watching you

Perfect puzzle wall

Time for chilling

Milking the colorful doves

A hoopoe

Seems like chilling is all we do?

Almond blossoms

Hamster time

Joanna

Carrot cake

The ugliest cat ever

Man drawing cacti in the botanical garden

Cactus

Blink

Black bamboo?

Our house for the night

Museum de bellas artes

Ghesus

Breathtaking

Absorbed by art

Roman

Welcome

Sky full of stars

Flower carpet

Feathers

Working out is very normal in spain, even for the old people. You find these public gyms everywhere.

Movie time!

The impact of humanity on this beautful natural area

Paella Valenciana (NOT vegetarian!)

Glossy Ibis

Glossy ibis close up

Fisherman

Valencia port

Cycling time, a must do around Valencia

Arroz negro

Flower carpet

The end of the road

Black: tissue wipe of arroz negro, brown: tissue wipe of chocolate ice cream 😉

Cattle egret

Elegant cattle egret

Albufera sunsets, the best sunsets in the world

Get ready for a lot more!

Boat

Getting down

And down

and down

and down

Thousands of birds, this time it's not lens dust

Gone...

It's not me, I'm taking the photo

Last boat ride for the day

And another one from the phone so I'm sure I didn't miss it

Last one, I promise

Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias at night

The hemisphere at night

Reflection

Hemisphere, museum and bridge

Mercado Colon

Chinese New Year

Though guy

Forward!

The dragon

Photo bombing

Whiiiiiiiiii

Archeological museum, free on sunday! It's where the ancient Valencia was born

Ugh!

I'm done

Lion

The cathedral in all it's glory

Fallas dancers

Photo bombing

Flamenco

Street "artist"

Churches...

The one and only real Holy Grail is in Valencia!

The only reason to stay in this church...

207 steps, almost there

The roof of Valencia

The tower bell

The cathedral from the other side

5€?

Lindy hop in the beautiful Valencian weather

Silk exchange building

Dark times

Las fritas patatas with special toppings!

Rose-ringed parakeet

Hanging the laundry on the 11th floor of our Airbnb

Correos

Town hall

Almost as nice as Antwerp?

Not bad

Cheer up mate!

Valencia 1 Antwerp 0

Ghesus

Albufera from the sky

Noizzzze

Camarles

Cosy

Kitchen

Beeswax

Close up

White beeswax

Alba

Sourdough culture

Lucy

Zita

Zita & Lucy

Sour dough bread making

Ssssssh, this is where the bread rises

Multiple grain bread

Heavy labor

Falco

Bread oven on fire

3 more hours before it's ready

I'm obsessed with this oven, and Peter even made it himself!

Almost ready...

Grainzzz

10 breads

Almost...

Removing wood and ashes so the oven is clean to put in the bread

Go!

Almost...

10 lovely breads

Mmmmm...

Naranja

Limon

Beautiful yellow serpent agave plants

Unfortunately, still to cold to swim

Solar energy

Green cauliflower

Storing all that solar energy

Beautiful plants but hard work

They are big!

Our friend donkey who ate all the olive tree leaves

And her companion

Walking the dogs

It's all about the olives

Strolling through the olivegarden

Almond blossoms

Catzzz

Falco'tje

Zita'tje

She likes belly rubs

Let's go to the bees

They are afraid of smoke

3 active hives

Muchos bees

Aaaaaaaaaaaah

1051, 1052, 1053,...

Muchos muchos

Peter the beekeper

Our friends

The club is full, bees lining up

Deltebre

Cauliflower field

The morning delta

Birds!

Flamingo's

The delta

The end of the delta

Poble Nou

Flamingo madness

The blind are not ignored!

Flix

The best sunsets

Basic but nice

It doesn't look like it but it was really cold there

Stargazing

Amazing

Nice and warm in front of the fireplace

Wes' home

A natural swimming pool

Horse feeding

White horse feeding 🙂

The stork has come

Sebes natural reserve

Reserva natural de fauna salvatge

Flix is empty during the day, everybody is doing their siesta

Si?

Heavenly walk

Sunset I

Sunset II

Flix view from the castle on top of the mountain

Flix sunset

Flix is a nuclear town, they promised to close down the plant last year but managed somehow to open it for another 2 years, reminds me of Belgium...

Nuclear versus renewable

Empty streets

Off grid means you need to get your water from somewhere, in this case the public tap in the village

Off we go!

Olive harvesting

Freshhhh

Black olives harvested from a 16 ha farm

delicious

No electricity, only solar

How to connect this?

Making dinner

Showering outside in January, nice but quite cold!

Compost toilet, also outside

Fresh cacti fruits

Doing some woodwork to reinforce the doors

Walk to Ribaroja, the town next to Flix.

Marble?

Or salt layers?

A road with a view

Black-eye and black-ear

Almost there

Ribaroja I

Ribaroja II

Ribaroja III

Ribaroja IV

Sunrise

Barcelona

No explanation needed

Bubbles!

Arc de Triomphe I

Ciutadella Park

Arc de Triomphe II

Smoothies!

The cathedral of Barca

What are you looking at?

Old Roman garveyard

Ten huize Felix

This is a representation of the Spanish post: It should be fast as a swallow but in reality it's as slow as a turtle

Gaudi theatre

Natural Park Delta del Llobregat

Dear Spain, it's a natural park but every 5 minutes there is a plane flying over producing at least 90dB of noise...

Barcelona beach

A hoopoe

El Prat Airport

Very restrictive nature walk

Palm forest

Artichokes...

Harvesting the old fashioned way

Cal Tet

Western Swamphen!

Western Swamphen

Cal Tet

Little egret

Black redstart

Mercado de La Boqueria fruitas y verduras

Mercado de La Boqueria smoothies

Mercado de La Boqueria carne

Mercado de La Boqueria huevos

Barca skating!

Inviting lighting store

Indian candy jalebi

Library