We had our last breakfast with María Victoria. She was an excellent hostess and we were sad to leave her. We took the metro to the train station and found our train to Valencia. Most of the scenery between Madrid and Valencia was farms with olives, fruit trees, or grapes. In between were fields full of red poppies. The ground looked like limestone, very white soil, and not many trees. After a few small mishaps, we made it to the new house via metro. We arrived very hot and thirsty and our new hostesses fed us. They were watching the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants in Spanish, which was interesting.
We then walked over to the City of Arts and Sciences complex, a big Valencian landmark. It is a huge complex of interesting buildings connected by parkland, right near the center of the city. The buildings were designed by Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava and include a science center which looks like a whale carcass with vertebrae, an Imax theater that looks like a giant eye and can even close, a theater that looks to me like a fly, an aquarium, a fabulous bridge, a garden under an umbrella walkway, and a tennis complex. It is mostly in white and surrounded by aqua pools, which fits in with the fact that is it so close to the Mediterranean.
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