January 18, 2012

  • Wednesday 18th January 2012

    Wednesday Night: Today was "Valencia day" and we had to be there by 8am, which meant we had to be up by 5am,. Of course when you have to get up that early and you are not used to it, you don't sleep at all so we were all up well before the alarms went off.

    Call it anticipation, last week it was horrible, so why would this week be any different? .... The weather for the last few days has been horrible, dark, very wet and cold, it poured with rain all night and was still raining hard when we left at 6-30am this morning  I had looked at the weather site the previous night and could see that we would very soon find clearing weather as we headed north.....

    We found our parking space, (again amazingly, you have no idea how difficult this is here....yet.....well.)  anyway the first wait today was only for 45 minutes, so much earlier than last week and with four whole hours to kill we headed for the park of science and technology. First we sat in the car in the early morning sunshine, but as it rose higher and the day began to warm up we walked into the park to a cafe we knew from before.....

    I think this is the planetarium, whatever it is, it's a beautiful and interesting building in a fabulous setting... I would call it "futuristic", (but then this is the "future" isn't it....)



    There are always     so many interesting and different photographic opportunities here, these are just three of a dozen or more I shot today.....

    The "business end" of the day was a shortened 3 1/2 hour session, so we were all home by 8-30pm .... It wasn't such a bad day after all...