May 18 Valencia

I sat out a few days in the rain and then decided to move on as soon as possible. Today it was clear so I packed up my bike and headed for Valencia. It´s not a very long drive, but I got lost trying to find the campground which is just South of Valencia on another lagoon (so of course there are the sounds of explosions all night). This lagoon is called La Albufera, and again it is very threatened ecologically. But there is a tremendous bird population here, both migratory and permanent. After I got my tent set up it had clouded over again, and then it began to pour, with thunder and lightening like you get in Ontario in the summer. So, I stayed in my tent again. In the restaurant they were having comuñones for all kinds of little girls all dressed up in white and very proud of themselves. So here I was in my motorcycle road clothes trying to look inconspicous.