Valencia and Barcelona vacations

Vincent and I attended the wedding of friends in Valencia, Spain, last week. We used the opportunity to visit Valencia (with that special America's cup finals week ambiance to it) and then Barcelona for another 4 days. As we were told afterwards, we really didn't miss out on anything in Switzerland with the autumn like weather we've been having these last weeks.



Valencia is a very nice city, much more relaxed than Barcelona and definitely worth a visit. The America's cup port is very trendy and lively (although i don't know how it will be once the cup is over), with more people in the bars at 3 am than at 1am!! And traffic jams at 3:30am, just unbelievable. Another great attraction of Valencia is the Oceanographic built in 2003, just next to the City of science, Imax and Opera house, all amazingly modern buildings coming straight out from the 5th Element or some other SF movie. All these buildings, along with a nice huge park, are located in the riverbed of a dried river crossing the city.

The wedding itself was amazing, beautiful, simpy perfect :)

Here a few pics as a "teaser", and the link to the Aquarium and Barcelona photo gallery:

http://picasaweb.google.fr/joellekueng/ValenceBarcelone2007





In the Oceanographic



The City of science, Valencia



One of the famous houses designed by Guëll, Barcelona



Nicely dressed for the wedding :)



City centre of Valencia