Archive for August, 2008

  • by valencia blog

    Link: See Schumi in Valencia The first Formula 1 race in Valencia is over and since we couldn’t afford tickets (and didn’t get press passes … yeah right – Holavalencia is still too small!), we went down to the track afterward. Being a photographer, wandering around the deserted track was more exciting than watching the [...]

  • by valencia blog

    I finally managed to get my finger on a white iPhone 16GB (I’ll cover the benefits and flaws of the iPhone in a separate post) which enables me us to blog live from Valencia, with the help of the iPhone’s Tumble application. Valencia Live is a new feature which has its own section and RSS [...]

  • by mpowell

    This Wednesday, the 27th of August, the small town of Buñol will once again play host to one of the world’s most famously bizarre festivals: The Tomatina. Source: arroncorey@flickr You’ve probably seen the images — hundreds of people throwing millions of tomatoes at each other, turning the city’s streets into a mushy, red mess. The [...]

  • by mpowell

    It’s unbelievable, and goes against everything I’ve ever stood for as an educated member of civilized society: I am excited for a car race. I can’t wait, despite being completely ignorant about Formula 1. In fact, here is the entire compendium of my knowledge of the sport: Things I Know About F1 1 Approximately half [...]

  • by mpowell

    In 138 BC, Junius Brutus established a small colony of Roman soldiers on an island in the river Turia, known as Valentia. Although the area had been previously inhabited by unorganized Iberian tribes, this is considered to be the founding of Valencia. Ruins of the Circo Romano found near C/ La Paz in 1989 (http://www.cult.gva.es/) [...]


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