Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


February 20, 2010: The Valencia Harbor

The day started with Karen and Javi - They fed me lunch and kept me awake until 5pm, when Javier took over. With Karen, we mostly solve my problems, buying some fruit and a local sim card for my mobile phone. The sim card turned out to be a 2 hour adventure. Buying it was a piece of cake, getting it to work was not a piece of cake. The first sim card (20 euros) would receive calls from some networks but not other networks. After discussion with Movistar, lots of action, it still did not work reliably. So we exchanged it for a 12 euro phone with sim card. This worked fine. Transferred the sim card to my original phone and it worked fine. So problem was not mine.

Then, Javier picked me up and we walked to the harbor. Here is the headquarters for the America's cup

feb 20 6451 americas cup hq

There was no sign of the Oracle boat - but here is the hull of Alinghi

feb 20 6457 alinghi hull

The harbor canal

feb 20 6463 harbor canal

An iron plate from the 32nd America's cup race in 2007 (I think)

feb 20 6466 americas cup

Another plate

feb 20 6467 32 or 33 cup

Closer look at the design

feb 20 6467 iron typo

Deserted (mostly) beach

feb 20 6468 valencia beach

Fllying kites

feb 20 6471 flying kites

Beach

feb 20 6481 beach

A sand sculpture

feb 20 6484 sand sculpture

Building a sand sculpture

feb 20 6485 sand sculpture

Drummers

feb 20 6498 drummers

A street

feb 20 6502 street

Late afternoon street - then dinner with Javier - tapas, of course

feb 20 6505 afternoon street

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C. Frank Starmer

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