Valencia is the third largest city in Spain and a wonderful place to wander around for a couple of hours on a sunny day. It is surprisingly clean, displays some great architecture, and was very walkable in the center.
It's about 6:00 a.m. and we're docked in Barcelona. We'll leave Insignia in a couple of hours, take a taxi to the airport, and fly our cheap route to London on Lufthansa via Milan.
Since we embarked at Buenos Aires March 15, we've sailed 6,062 nautical miles, including 1,606 nautical miles between Recife Brazil and Porto Grande, Cape Verde, and 1,126 nautical miles between Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, and Valencia Spain. Our fourth transatlantic cruise was as enjoyable as our first three, and we're already hoping to do another one in 2012.
For now, we'll concentrate on today's trip to London.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
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