A Taste for Travel

Hi Friends! Bhakti + Jagger together again today!

Three museums in three days, only a week into our travel? Nope. Best laid plans. We bought tickets for the three major museums at a reduced cost by booking three days in a row. After the second day, we had pretty much had it, and Jagger came down with the plague. Fevers and fatigue he was down for the count.

One of the beauties of slow travel is, if you have to miss a day, there’s plenty of time to make it up. Eventually we got to all three museums and enjoyed each one for it’s own offering.

First up was the L’Oceanogràfic the largest aquarium in Europe. We went with our friends and fellow ocean lovers and enjoyed a full day running all around this wonderful sight. Jagger’s favorite part was the underwater tube with the sharks, and the underwater igloo with the octopus where you could listen to the sound of waves crashing. Bhakti loved the underwater tube as well and didn’t love the pizza lunch that led to….. problems…. more on that topic when we visit the Caves at St Josep….

The next day for our intrepid travelers, we all hiked over again to the science center of Valencia to attend a iMAX style move about the ocean at Hemisfèric. Once we got over the initial challenges of figuring out how to wear our translator headset, (which basically gave us princess Leia vibes, we were surrounded by big blue and immersed in a sweet documentary film. We may not have learned anything new per say, but it was super fun to feel a part of the ocean again. After the film we grabbed a bite to eat and took all the kids back to Gulliver park once more for a couple of hours of running around together.

After missing our friends on the third day, the three of us, Bhakti, Zach and Jagger struck out on our own and headed back a week later to finally take in the Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe. We will save the information about the Fallas exhibit for our post about the celebrations. But the museum’s other exhibits were also awesome. Jagger loved the architecture of the building itself, the exhibit on the science of music, and the claw machine in the communicable disease exhibit where you could “catch” various stuffies that were in the molecular shape of the illness in order to learn more about it. After the museum, we stopped off to ride on a wave board! Jagger was so excited to get on the water and zoom around. It was the perfect punctuation to a fun outing!

Overall, Valencia’s three main museums were a worthwhile visit… though maybe it’s a little intense to try to do them all in three days!