Trip to Valencia, Spain - 16th to 19th June 2005

This was a stag weekend, also known as an excuse to drink obscene amounts of alcohol over 3 nights. The venue was Valencia, a city with amazing nightlife, that my friends and I have been visiting for a while, mainly because one of our mates from school now lives there. In June, the place was clearly guaranteed to be scorching hot, so with the heat and the alcohol, the scene was set for a good weekend.

Our nights out in Valencia tend to be divided into 2 parts - before you start drinking the Agua de Valencia, and afterwards. So, a civilised bar crawl, on the beers, soon turns mad after midnight, when the rounds of this stuff start arriving. The main nightlife area of Valencia, Barrio del Carmen, is packed with people every night, and only really comes alive at midnight - a great place for a really big night out, in the way that we just don't match up to in the UK.

So, 3 big nights out, with lots of tapas in between, and even a full game of cricket during the day, in Valencia's main park (which is actually a dried up river bed in the city centre) - that certainly drew some strange looks from passing Spaniards, although it was all a good education for them. A brilliant weekend, in the way that you can only get by being out drinking for 72 hours with 15 great lads.