13th August : Valencia

Hi there beautiful people. Thank you all for the time you are taking to read my blog.

I have been asked to change the way I am presenting my trip so as of today the blog's will be day based rather than location based.

** I wonder if this church realises what they have above their doorway.

** I left my hotel at about 9am this morning and walked the 3.5 kilometres to the science museum which is part of a very large complex consisting of an Opera House, a marine park, and the science museum. For the first time since arriving in Spain the sky was overcast and there were thunderstorm warnings. Although there were strong wind blasts, no rain fell that I was aware of. 

** Although there was nothing within the museum that I would write home about, the architecture is eye opening. The buildings I passed on the main road are outside of the old city boundary and they are very different, especially the new apartment complexes, to the older & lower buildings in the old city.

** Learned an important lesson. Having arrived at the museum, I went on line to book a ticket just for the Science museum and ever site I went to said sold out for today. I took a chance and queued, only for 3 minutes, and just bought a ticket at the desk - no problem even though I have been told that no tickets can result in hours of queuing.  So today's lesson is, as always, never believe 99% of what you read on the web. 😱🤗🤓However, what I am writing is on the web and you can believe it 100% . There is a proviso. You must know what you are doing in the first place.

** Neil Diamond, in his musical adaptation of the book,  Johnathon Livingston Seagull, penned "lost on a painted sky, where the clouds are drawn, for the poet's eye"; well here the water pools around the complex are strategically placed for the amateur photographer's eye. You will see below what I mean

Some form of devil on a bridge neat the science museum. It has a partner on the other side of the road.

The Valencia Opera house.

A closed yet open structure for trees and plants and children

One of the structures in the complex

An amazingly high structure of stairs that I did not climb

Showing the pools built around the four main structures 

Interesting 3D graphics on a wall in the exhibition.

What is a science exhibition without the ubiquitous DNA structure.

Some well placed lights

A wheel of Columbus

A metal ball continuosly spins seemingly breaking the second law of thermodynamics. It basically a spinning metal object that sets up a magnetic field that itself applies further spin. 

An infinite machine it is not though.

Water reflection as promised 

Very expensive appartments overlooking the science/ entertainment structures.

The second museum I visited today was also quite a walk although not quite as far as the first (8 klm round trip for the first.)

This museum is present very avantgarde type work. The main exhibitor is a Spanish artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His name is Gonzales and he did much of his work in Paris. 

The South African artist is a well known vocal member of the LGBTI community with South Africa. 

Other artists being exhibited.

Museum of prehistory of Valencia.

This museum coveres the paleo, meso and neolithic ages, followed by the Chalcolithic, bronze and Iron Ages. These ages are out of kilter with the Easter. Mediterranean by a number of centuries and the advent of the Greek trading and Roman ok colonisation caused compressed of the chronological spread between the Middle Bronze Age period and the start of Iron Age.