{"id":628,"date":"2009-07-28T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T18:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/?p=628"},"modified":"2024-04-26T05:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T11:29:41","slug":"train-valencia-train-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/train-valencia-train-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Train Valencia Train Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-632\" title=\"_mg_0585_traintomadrid\" src=\"http:\/\/peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/_mg_0585_traintomadrid.jpg\" alt=\"_mg_0585_traintomadrid\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/_mg_0585_traintomadrid.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/_mg_0585_traintomadrid-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wake up often in the night. The windmills collect sounds with their giant sails. Distant sirens, discoteques, planes, and birds. A few cars pull up to admire the view. They don&#8217;t see me.\u00a0 Morning wind hums through the cables that restrain the windmills arms. Make my breakfast on the steps of the train station.<\/p>\n<p>Valencia is hot, humid and huge. A long river of trees and park through the sity ends in collection of incredible architecture, like huge bleached fish skeleton, a city of art and sciences. I ride, and get lost, find the beach, the empty historic centre, and eventually the train station again. Its a five hour trip.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona is teeming with people. La Rambla is full of tourists, vendors of spraypaint fantasy art, characature artists, trinkets and designer knock offs.\u00a0 I push through the crowd on rose. All the hostels are full, and I don&#8217;t want to pay for them anyway. Something as simple as a sliver of space to sleep should not be so expensive.<br \/>\nSo I make my way to a park, and after making a late dinner, ride up a gravel path to a find a concrete slab bench hidden in the shadows to make my bed. its 2 before I lay down in the hot roar of the motorway nearby.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-628 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/_mg_0414_valencia.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/_mg_0414_valencia-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/_mg_0419_valencia.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/_mg_0419_valencia-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/_mg_0581_traintomadridguy.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/_mg_0581_traintomadridguy-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/_mg_0585_traintomadrid.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/_mg_0585_traintomadrid-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wake up often in the night. The windmills collect sounds with their giant sails. Distant sirens, discoteques, planes, and birds. A few cars pull up to admire the view. They don&#8217;t see me.\u00a0 Morning wind hums through the cables that restrain the windmills arms. Make my breakfast on the steps of the train station. 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