{"id":340,"date":"2025-01-27T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolineroshelli.com\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:37:25","slug":"climbing-moorish-castles-and-a-night-of-flamenco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolineroshelli.com\/blog\/climbing-moorish-castles-and-a-night-of-flamenco\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Moorish Castles and a Night of Flamenco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Happy Monday! It’s week three for me here in Spain, and it has been my calmest week thus far (calm is relative).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Saturday I tried Sangria and Agua de Valencia for the first time at a little outdoor restaurant down the street from the Peset! The above photo of me and Hannah is from that evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday we visited the Mercado Central for the first time- something which I really loved. The place was bustling with people and vendors selling everything from pastries and fresh produce to sandwiches and pig’s feet. I also notably saw a whole severed pig’s head, eyes still in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the market, a few of us found a nice sunny set of steps to sit on. While we were sitting there basking in the sun and chatting a guy with an old fashioned camera took a photo and printed it for us. It was so cool cause it was like a little faux newspaper sheet that had some photos of Valencia on it and all of the text was local history!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That evening we celebrated Manuel’s birthday with some tiramisu we found at the Mercado! Manuel is one of our program directors and professors and he’s just about the sweetest person you’ll ever meet. The other photo below is of Oliver attempting to “psycho-tickle” James at dinner. I don’t think it worked, but it was certainly entertaining to witness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I caught a bit of a cold on Monday and Tuesday, which was not a surprise by any means. Slowly but surely each person in our program has been taking their turn getting whatever cold is being passed around. It was inevitable, but thankfully my symptoms let up by Wednesday when we took our day trip to Xativa. <\/p>\n\n\n

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