It sure has been quite cool around here lately. I guess with that last rainy system that came through, it ushered in a reinforcement of cold weather. When we got up this morning, the skies looked nice and clear again and we were glad about that since we were planning to drive up to the city of Valencia today. By the time we left the house, though, the clouds had come in. We were quite surprised but hoped that it was just a band of them moving through.
We decided to take the coastal road up to Valencia which proved to be very interesting if not somewhat slow. But that was ok, we were in no hurry. We went through all the little towns along the coast and it was interesting seeing the different places. We hadn't gotten very far, though, when the skies got darker and eventually we did hit rain. But never any heavy rain so it was all good.
We stopped for a bathroom and snack break at a McDonald's. Pretty soon we came to the area where there is a huge lagoon. We stopped at a little observation area to look at all the birds walking among the rice fields to see what we could see. Some pictures of the rice fields.
After that, we stopped in the town of El Palmar to have lunch. We ate at a restaurant that had tables alongside a canal, kind of wishing we had picked a table in the sun since it was cool. But it wasn't so cool that we couldn't eat comfortably.
We had a paella, but truth be told, Guillermo still makes the best paella.
From El Palmar we went in search of our hotel for the evening, and after getting turned around only once, we found it. A very nice Best Western where there's wireless internet!!! Wow, we haven't had that in a LONG time, so it's a real bonus!
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