Spain. Valencia. New Year

For the first time in my life we ​​greeted the New Year at home and not just in Spain. The main miracle was zero temperature air and abundant foliage, the calendar showing December 31. Although good to get used quickly. Flies to Valencia, is the window shows that winter is a little different.

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View of Valencia from above. From a distance looks very nice, you can go down and look closer.

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Yes it is. Very cute…

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Chycti and tidy streets. Beautiful trees in pots of concrete pavers and pleasant underfoot. Walking the streets is a pleasure, especially when you do not want to bypass cars cunning:

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The same idyll in the old lanes:

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Here and elsewhere, the arrival of winter reminds opavshe leaves:

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But the streets still green lot:

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Like flowers:

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Spaniards love to buy not only flowers, but also actively grow them yourself.

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Someone admires so that beareth a jungle on the balcony. Our people palyatsya everywhere. Even in Spain they build greenhouses on balconies.

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Khvalena European freedom. Police car can park on the turn and no one do not care. We have long police have fined the traffic cops and civil activists have removed three reports to the registrar.

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Okay, let the good. Visitors to the street Racer:

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But a custom look with sleeping areas. No booth or playground in the yard or garden with ukopanymy tires.

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In Valencia very ill with beriberi difficult this issue resolved at the state level.

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After strolling the town several hours, we mentioned that Valencia is on the Mediterranean Sea. Come, see:

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This time of year the beach or soul. All are preparing for the New Year, dorizayut Olivier, decorate the Christmas tree.

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Sleeping tired dumbbells, barbells sleep

Horizontal bars and bars await swing.

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At sea, the fish swim only:

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Meanwhile, the New Year remains a matter of hours. Police go on patrol.

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What's this? This — the main tree of the city? Are you serious?

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At first we thought it was a joke. But then realized that the Spaniards all trees, to put it mildly, conceptual.

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Why do we say in Spanish, not in valensiytsiv? As we saw in Barcelona tree:

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At night, like the TV tower:

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Well done about it. After the New Year importantly — no tree, and mental Company:

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But the tree was not the only novelty. The Spaniards did not clink glasses of champagne during the battle chimes — they chew. Yes, all right, we want to have fun with each other happiness, health and washed down with "Soviet" and they chew grapes. Next principle, everyone should prepare 12 grapes (such sets even sold in stores), then during battle the clock in Puerta del Sol square in Madrid with every blow, you need to put in his mouth a vineyard. The point is to have time to chew all 12 grapes at the time when stops chiming clock and come the New Year. In fact, no one has time to do it and at 00.01 around you is a bunch of people with mouth stuffed, very funny sight. This tradition goes back far in 1908, when Spain yielded too many grapes and winemakers came up with a clever way to deal with overproduction.

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However, not all restricted eating grapes. Many still use grape juice and liquid food.

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In fact to catch your breath and relax not given much time, an hour later opened to vehicular traffic.

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