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Valencia

Take the train from Barcelona to Valencia at noon. The trains between major cities in Spain are quite convenient, so I bought train tickets online in advance. As soon as the guy sitting next to me on the train sat down, I looked curiously at the Japanese sake sticker on his phone case, and he chatted with me when he saw that I was looking at it. It turned out that he worked for a Japanese telecommunications company and often traveled to Japan on business. The sticker was given to him by a Japanese friend. Afterwards, we talked a lot about traveling, and introduced me to Valencia's traditional paella, which is actually "paella" without seafood. He also read through text messages and recommended several restaurants to me that his friends recommended to him.

The train was supposed to arrive in three and a half hours, but when there was half an hour left, all the people on the train were suddenly asked to get off, saying that there was a breakdown, and let us get out of the station and wait for the bus to pass. I went out and waited for almost an hour, but there was no progress. I asked other passengers and didn't know what was going on. I saw that no one complained, and they didn't seem to be in a hurry, so I just sat there and waited. Finally, the flight attendant finally let the passengers going to Valencia get off a train, wondering what happened to the rest of the passengers. The railroad doesn't work that well.

The train was almost two hours late. The owner of the sofa sent me his work address in advance, and it takes only 10 minutes to walk from the train station. Let me go directly to his company to find him when I arrive. Because the wireless network coverage in Barcelona is quite wide, I didn't buy a local SIM card that can access the Internet, and I didn't find it too inconvenient for two or three days there. But when I arrived in Valencia, I found that it was not very convenient to have no internet. When I went to his company, I couldn't contact my sofa owner because there was no internet. The security lady downstairs was not very friendly, saying that she didn't have a phone that I could use to contact my sofa owner. In desperation, I went directly to the second floor, and the little girl at the front desk opened the door for me and asked me to come out from the sofa. I put my big backpack on him and went out by myself. The first thing I did was to go to the local telecommunications company Orange to get a phone card. I thought it would be better to buy a phone card with 10 days left in Spain and Portugal. You need to use a passport to apply for a card, 20 Euro 15G can be used in Spain and Portugal.

Once you get the phone card, you can go out and go shopping. The architecture of the city of Valencia is really beautiful. Compared with Barcelona, there are much fewer people on the street. Along the way, we went to the local market of Mercado del Colón, Puerta de la Mar, Plaza de Toros de Valencia and so on. I went shopping until about 6 o'clock, and the sofa owner is off work. You can take me for a walk in the city center and have dinner. The sofa owner worked as a programmer in a German IT company. A few years ago, he went to Ireland to learn English and lived there for several years. He practiced martial arts for many years, especially the Brazilian war dance capoeira. He had a very similar experience to me one or two years ago, and he also resigned and traveled to many places for almost a year, even the countries he went to were similar. He said that his current job is quite boring, and he plans to save money and resign in a year or two before traveling for a while.

After three days in Spain, I have gradually gotten used to the so-called "Spanish time". I don't mean jet lag, but the meals here. The dinner time of the locals is basically from eight or nine to midnight, so it is impossible to find a restaurant for dinner at six or seven in the evening. My sofa owner introduced me to some landmarks while strolling. I found a tapa bar at eight o'clock, and then went to another tapa bar to continue eating tapa. Strolled back to his house after eating and met his two cats and a roommate.

This morning, I participated in a city walking tour of Valencia and learned more about the history and culture of the city. Valencia's Fallas Festival is a special festival that welcomes spring by burning dolls in mid-March every year. Fallas is too late, and the festivities start in two weeks. But today I happened to meet a group of candidates for Miss Falla. The tour guide said that each silk dress they wore cost as little as three thousand euros. The tour guide also explained the language here. The Spanish spoken in Barcelona is Catalan, Catalan, but Valencia is different. Their two official languages are Spanish and Valencian. Most of them are almost. The street name signs here are bilingual, even though sometimes the spelling is exactly the same in both languages. You can choose the language of instruction when you choose courses at the university. It was interesting to have the possibility of speaking Spanish with my mother and Valencian with my father at home.

The central market is huge, and it sells everything. The whole market has two parts. The seafood sellers are separated from the main market for fear of taint.

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