The Valencia Trip

Soooo, we are back from another road trip, this time to Valencia, Spain. Because all of us were quite busy this summer, we decided to do only a short 5-day trip to Spain, where Sabrina will be spending her Erasmus year.

We took off on Monday evening (after a day and a half delay, because of some last minute university responsibilities) and spent the first night on a petrol station in pouring rain somewhere in Italy. 

On Tuesday we drove to Monaco with hopes to admire some expensive cars and to flirt with the members of the Grimaldi family.  We saw loads of the former, but our ambitions to become the new members of the Monaco royal family disappeared after we still didn't manage to meet anyone important in our 2h stroll across the town. We continued to the classy city of Nice, which turned out not to be so classy at all, especially after a biker crashed into the back of our car and a petrol station vendor ripped us off by selling us a wrong package of fuses for the front headlamps (they are from the Balkans, they wouldn't notice pfff). We reached  Marseille just before midnight and parked in front of a non-existing camp, which address we found on the Internet. We ended up sleeping in a wood on the outskirts of the city together with another caravan. 

Monaco

Nice

On Wednesday it was time for a casual stroll around Marseille and some "minor" ultra-last-minute university responsibilities. Our plan was to leave Marseille by two in the afternoon. At 10 in the evening we were still sitting in a local McDonalds trying to upload some files. So we spent another night sleeping in our wood in outside the city and headed to Andorra next morning.

Thursday was pretty hectic. We drove nine hours to get to Andorra (trying to avoid toll roads, recession you know) and parked in front of the government office just to make sure that the car was safe. We were both impressed by the beauty of Andorra's landscape and the incredible organisation of the capital la Vella. We then drove another six hours to get close to Valencia where we were intending to sleep. Getting there was quite a challenge, because something got wrong with the car's gear stick and we drove the last part of the way using only 2nd and 4th gear (and pushing the car if we wanted to reverse).

We slept on a beach just in front of Valencia and after a warm bath in the Mediterranean sea reached the city centre on Friday morning and finished our short trip with the victory avocado.

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