Valencia

I m writing this now and it feels like a million years ago so much has happened since then !

We drove from Roses to Valencia , stopping to take a look at santa marguerita and Empuriabrava , a lot of the houses here are built along connecting waterways and have their own jetty at the end of the garden with their boat tied up , it looks really cool .

Into the supersol and stock up the fridge as we need to get to Valencia asap. I swear they knew I was coming , every juggernaut in Spain was on that leg of the trip , definitely more of them than cars ! Quite gruelling for the pilot so when we eventually arrived at our hotel which was right on the beach the other side of Valencia I had been cute enough to phone ahead and book myself a massage ! Simply heaven , a celebratory bottle of vino that had been chilling in the car fridge was opened and the girlies raised their glasses and patted themselves on the back for surviving such an awful drive !!

The Americas cup has already started and Valencia is absolutely buzzing , we took ourselves off into town and the crack was simply mighty Many New Zealanders obviously mad people all out to party in Spain . We slept with the patio door open that night as we were so close to the sea and the wind had picked up , It was pretty awesome listening to the waves breaking outside our window . I woke up at 5 a.m to a massive storm with serious thunder and lightening which was quite spectacular to watch , but I was concerned about getting out to see the racing later , the seas were sooo rough .

Anyway , I was right I got a call later to say it was not likely that the spectator corporate hospitality boat that had our names ,would get out , but fear not a table has been reserved for us at the Foredeck club at port americas cup ! Hey , I will be honest and say at the time I was disappointed I soo wanted to be out there , Emer on the other hand was quite relieved as it was still unbelievably rough and windy .



!. We got "the phonecall " from our contact at the Americas Cup and yes all was sorted for us access all areas