If you've ever wanted to be part of the biggest food fight in the world then you want "La Tomatina"! Getting to the town of Buñol a couple hours out of Valencia at 7:30am I was greeted with loud music and copious amounts of sangria! Yup! 20,000 people dressed in funny costumes, weird hairdos, celebratory matching outfits were already getting their drink on before 8am. It. Was. Crazy. So, I of course joined the fun! Then (unsurprisingly) those all-you-can drink sangrias turned into sangria fights in the streets! Sangria being thrown onto anyone and everyone that wasn't soaked enough! Now that everyone was sufficiently drunk and messy, 11am comes and the climbing of the pole to get the ham begins! Now I know you're confused. I'll explain that on top of a greased 24 foot post is a leg of ham. The first person to get the ham can keep it and this signals the truck of tomatoes to begin the fight! This ham has not been successfully reached in 5 years so you could imagine the determination of the climbers! I honestly thought someone was going to break their (or somone else's) back. Seriously don’t recommend trying to get the ham. I watched people literally stand on the heads of others to get higher. It was terrible! And all that effort, no-one succeeded this year either! So, exactly 1 hour later, a Canon sound goes off, people abandon the ham and the fight begins! 6 trucks carrying 145,000 kilograms of tomatoes roll down the street and it's every man for themselves! 1 hour of relentless throwing! There is tomato EVERYWHERE. Then, at the hour point, the weapons (any tomatoes) are put down and you start trying to find a nice local to hose you down as best as they can before continuing the party at a local bar. What. A. Day. 
After a good sleep-in, I wandered the streets of the beautiful Valencia. A mix of very old and very new architecture within a modern city. I visited the bull fighting stadium (I don’t support the sport, so I didn't watch a match). I climbed the cathedral tower for the gorgeous views. I walked down the 9km long gardens that run through the centre of the city to end up at the very space-age themed museums! After seeing all the medieval, Roman, Victorian, etc. buildings throughout Europe, it was actually exciting to see these museums with their modern steel beams, glass walls, and coloured tiles contrasting the gothic cathedral I just came from.
2 days, combined 30,000 steps, all the tomatoes I can handle in a lifetime and I’m off to Madrid to start my “Iberian adventure”.