Albufera

Not to be mistaken with “Albufeira” (in Portugal), we spent our day here.
Albufera means “lagoon” and it is just a bike ride south of Valencia. Jaro and I went be car, Nickels by bike. It is one of the places to escape from the city, especially in Valencia’s summer. Therefore all these small towns seem quite dead at the moment. A bit like “half ghost towns”. Nonetheless it was nice to park within the dunes and enjoy this emptiness.

Around the lagoon is also where the rice is grown for the Spanish families paella-dish, which is typically consumed on Sundays for lunch (a bit like the “Sunday roast”). Well, we had it on a Monday for lunch - and as we learned on our walking tour: we made a reservation and pre-ordered and shared our paella (you order a paella for the table, not as a single dish). One thing that wasn’t as original as it could get: our paella was with seasonal vegetables instead of rabbit and duck.Read more