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Today our guide "Kate"  stopped by our apartments to do a walking tour the city.  We stopped at more ancient Roman ruins and walked the streets where a carnival celebration was going on.  We were told they celebrate something at least a few days a week and close up shop for several hours to do so.  They dress up in traditional costume and parade in the streets to music played by their unit's band.    Here are a few photos of the streets and the archway at the courthouse where it was met centuries before by bullets and cannon balls. 

The Roman Baths 

We returned to the apartments and prepared to go to our Paella cooking class at Escuela de Arroces. We sat down to a very good Spanish white wine, a salad and a "tortilla".  I expected something flat but it looked like this chunk of potato and was served with mussels.  Both items were delicious and the wine was a Fusta nova:

The chef give us a thumbs up for putting together the seafood paella.  It had mussels, cuttlefish, langoustino lobster and shrimp cooked in a precooked fish broth and loaded up with paprika and cloves of garlic.  We sat down to a delicious meal.

Here's a hint given to us by the chef and I'm sharing the tip with you about cutting garlic.  When you cut the garlic in half, there's a heart in the middle of each side.  If you lift that out, you won't have indigestion or the garlic breath.  One of the artists tried it out on her own recipe at home and she said "Chef was right!".

Tradition in Valencia was to  go to the streets and sell the paella to a waiting public the good food that was prepared.  There wasn't a soul in the streets to sell to when we finished.  

We didn't think there would be!!!

Tomorrow we travel by van with Kate to the Lladro factory.