Valencia is an
extremely beautiful city. It's beauty hides behind corners and jumps
out at you. It also gives you an extreme compulsion to take
photographs. It also makes 'Itchycoo Park' by Small Faces play around
in a loop in your head. 'It's all too beautiful'.
At the minute, to avoid
that loop I’m listening to that amazing record I’ve already
gushed so much about on this blog 'Lizzy Sawyer' by herself. If you
haven't got it on your iTunes already, its £1.79 for heavens sake
man, go get! You're missing out on so much if you don't, and the
label & artist need money.
Valencia, sadly took a
shuttle bus to get to, and the whole trip was marred by my fear of
not finding the shuttle bus again. Luckily, I did and all was well.
I came in on a bus with
one other passenger. A security fellow, whose name I couldn't
pronounce when he told it me, and I certainly can't reproduce here.
Anyway, his English was very poor, and mines pretty poor at the best
of times, so we struggled, but made a day of it. That is, until we
got separated and I couldn't find him again. I felt really bad that
maybe he thought I was trying to loose him, but we chatted the next
day and I think we're all cool.
Anyway, I’ve no idea
what I saw, but I know it was very beautiful. Architecture to dwarf
the best I’ve ever seen seemed to be part and parcel of everyday
life, and going away I felt I hadn't seen an nth of what there was to
see.
I new the bust left
from by a river, so I found that river and and followed it up, but
all the space beside it looked the same. I went down to look at the
river, and it turned out to be a massive strip of parkland. Maybe the
river had dried up or something, but the whole thing was just full of
green space, parks, swings, trees, picnic places. It was pretty
inspirational, and my next day in Valencia will be spent there.
Later that night I
played with Steve in the audience, the guest singer and 64th
member of the Drifters. The next night he'd join me on the piano for
my set! I got bought so many drinks tonight, even full bottle of
wine! Love this job.
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