Day 7 - Valencia, Spain

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Activities

La Ciudad de las Ciencias - The City of Science
European Grand Primo - first day's practice
Plaza de Toros & Museo Taurino

Highlight(s)

• Quality and location of our grandstand seats for the race. It's always hard to picture what they'll be like when you buy them online. For those watching the race, we're on turns 1 & 2 - the first turn after exiting the pits. Anticipating some close calls at the corner as we have already seen Kimi overshoot the turn and Trulli fishtail the corner missing the wall by centimetres.
  
• The Finnish boys seated next to us. Every time Kimi Raikkonen or Heikki Kovalainen pass in front of us on the track, they cheer and wave their Finnish flag for all to see. Looking forward to seeing if this continues throughout practice & qualifying tomorrow, not to mention the 57 laps on race day.
  
• Enjoying the summer evening with post siesta drinks and tapas in the laneway.
  
• Miguel's Gelati count - 11
  

Odd Spot

* Jenson Button - third fastest in second practice. Joc made the call early in the day that she felt Jensie would do well this weekend.
* There are 3 times as many merchandise stands at the track as there are food and drink outlets. Having said that, most people are wearing unofficial merchandise bought from street vendors on the way to the track.
* Late night buskers doing unusual interpretations of Pete Murray and U2 songs.

Weather

Rain overnight, cloudy morning cleared into hot, sunny day. High temperature of 34 degrees.

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Photos

Anticipation
On our way to the track for the first practice session - Miguel was setting a cracking pace but managed tostop just long enough for this happy snap.

The Ciudad de las Ciencias
The City of Science. This building was designed to be viewed in conjuction with the water reflection to resemble an eyeball.

It's Here
First glimpse of Ferrari at the Valencia street circuit.

F1 Village
Fans are flocking to the F1 Village at the track for that all important piece of merchandise.

F1 Village
Taking in the sights and sounds of the F1 Village.

Ventriloquist
Locals were climbing the fences at the F1 track to gain any glimpse they could of the cars and festivities.

Plaza de Toros
The Valencia Bullring is one of the most used venues on the bull fighting circuit with 3 week long events per year. We also visited the adjoining Museo Taurino but weren't allowed to take photos within the museum.

Sangria & Tapas
Dinner and drinks at a cafe called The Bar. Spent the night soaking up the Spanish atmosphere (sangria), watching the locals go by and sampling the local food.

Plaza del Ayuntamiento
View from our balcony across the plaza with the fountain finally working.

Comments

[Steve.Z.]

Now thats living....
"Enjoying the summer evening with post siesta drinks and tapas in the laneway. " Sounds pretty damn good to me.

[Melissa W]

Sangria
Can't wait till it's Sangria time in Aus! I am reading this while wearing 3 tops and long pants - so jealous