{"id":15426,"date":"2016-10-14T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=15426"},"modified":"2016-10-14T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T08:13:00","slug":"day-27-28-tercel-valencia-boat-ibiza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=15426","title":{"rendered":"Day 27 & 28 Tercel to Valencia and boat to Ibiza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Valencian Oranges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I left\u00a0Complejo Touristico La Pinada at just before 9am after breakfast. It was a fast ride down to the coast through the gorgeously scented orange groves, the small\u00a0oranges\u00a0are a bit sharp to eat \ud83d\ude42 Valencia seems to starts miles away and has a complex series of bike paths so it was well over an hour before I finally I reached the “Do You Bike” shop.<\/p>\n

The guy in the shop said he would replace the spoke whilst I had a coffee across the road unfortunately he didn’t have a spoke\u00a0the right length \ud83d\ude41 However, I’ve been carrying a spare spoke for years so one coffee later the job was done \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Next on the agenda was a ferry ticket, so I biked down to the\u00a0Trasmediterranea terminal to get a ferry.They had one sailing at 10pm reaching Ibiza at 5am unwisely I didn’t book a cabin \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Next job was to find the closest hotel to the terminal as I will be returning with Sally (no Easyjet\/Ryanair flights from Ibiza in November) so she will have to return to the UK from the mainland. The hotel closest to the port is hotel Marina Atarazanas so I booked a room for us\u00a0on booking.com, the receptionist said it was cheaper that way.<\/p>\n

I then spent some time biking around the transport terminals of Valencia to see if there is any \u00a0straightforward way of getting to the Castellon Airport, simple answer is no. Anyway I then discovered that Ryanair also flies from the main Valencia airport with its 15min bus service to the city centre! A wasted 30 minutes on the Ryanair chatline now means that Sally can either fly from Castellon in the morning or Valencia in the late evening \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

After all that a visit to the beach was called for and a drink to while away the time before the ferry, Fascinating fact that\u00a0n Valencia there are several \u00a0river bridges which no longer cross a river. How weird.<\/p>\n

The crossing was smooth but my sleep certainly wasn’t I arrived at 5am to a deserted town, feeling wrecked. I rode around and eventually found the catamaran terminal had a coffee shop \ud83d\ude42 At 9am I thought I would give the Hotel Lai IBZ a try, amazingly they let me have my room, a quick shower and I was asleep \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Later I explored the old town which is really very pleasant and I found an ironmongers shop as well to get a bolt for my light plus finding Can Manola a bike rental place so Sally can rent a bike when she is over later this month.<\/p>\n

The place is winding down for the end of season but I discovered Pacha had a gig on starting at midnight so I bought an amazingly expensive ticket and went to bed again \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Not exactly rammed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The gig itself was disappointing, one thing I can’t stand are bad sound systems, having spent my youth building power amps and sand filled loudspeaker enclosures I just hate resonances when the ceiling starts rattling and putting stuff on loudspeakers so they rattle is just awful. The drinks are a staggering price too. No wonder Pacha own hotels & retail stores.<\/p>\n

So after 48 hours I finally went to bed at 3am \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The 18.6 miles to Valencia is on Strava here<\/a><\/p>\n

A few pics are on Dropbox here<\/a><\/p>\n

Still trying to work out how to get past heart rate data \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

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