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In the beginning of the semester, our history teacher told us about the Valor chocolate factory. Valor is like the Hershey of Europe. However, my Spanish being minimal, I thought it was closer to Madrid than to us. My friend, Gina, had mentioned last week that she had gone and after we were talking I discovered it was only a half hour tram ride away. I had my adventure for this weekend! Colleen, Nicole and I went to the city of Vila Joisa in order to discover this amazing factory. We sat down on the tram after a late start and began a game of cribbage. By the time we got off the tram I had the lead by a solid 16 points and Nicole was sitting in last place. I did not really know where to go once we got there so we just started walking. We crossed this bridge which was over a park and the buildings along the wash were gorgeous. They were painted all different colors, exactly what I was hoping to find when I came to Spain. Well we went in the right direction and found the Valor restaurant. It was next to this little park that was absolutely gorgeous, something straight out of a Taylor Swift song… I mean fairytale. We decided to explore the little park and we had some great photo opportunities so we enjoyed those.
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| A fairytale park |
After letting our photogenic sides come out we decided to head up to the restaurant. We were curious though, because we actually wanted to go the factory. Luckily, inside the shop they had flyers with a map that lead us straight there. It was about a 10 minute walk to the factory. But, we know nothing goes as planned, and the factory was closed when we got there at 12:30. I had done my research on the hours and the website said they were open until one, as did the brochure. We were a little disappointed but headed back to the Valor restaurant. Our intention was to get chocolate and churros, a famous Spanish desert. However, the churros are a little different here. They are bigger, and served with sugar on the side, not doused in cinnamon sugar like in the states. They serve them with hot chocolate (which is basically liquid chocolate here) and you eat the churro dipping it in chocolate. Needless to say it is decadent! But the waitress informed us that they did not have churros!! What!? It was another disappointment but we tried the chocolate sampler anyway. My favorite was the dark chocolate, yum!
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| Admiring beauty |
With piles of homework at home we headed back to the tram. We had about a 20 minute wait in which we continued our game of cribbage. My luck had run out and I was only in the lead by a few points by the time the tram arrived. I ended up losing to Nicole because she counted before me! What a bummer! Despite the mishaps I enjoyed the little town and spending some time with my friends!
Much Love!
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