Another beautiful morning in Valencia, and I am taking some time off to update this travelogue with some information from yesterday, and a picture that shows me walking on my way to present a talk on the Dengue docking project that I have been heading for nearly two years. I have no idea what happened with the angles on this picture, I am not even sure I’d recognize myself:
[picture deleted ... it was just too horrible ...]
The conference venue is very nice, they have rented a very large, modern and climatized lecture hall. It is a bit too big for the size of the conference, though. While this allows us all to stretch out and spread out our stuff on adjacent seats, we almost look a little lost in there. Here is a (very blurred, I admit) picture of the venue.
Besides attending the conference (after all, that’s what I’m here for), I was able to get some time off to explore Valencia a bit further, and for this time, I focused on the “spanish old town”. The city has beautiful old buildings, and the sidewalks are made from very nide stone tiles for the most part. If only there was less dog turd on the sidewalks, navigating the streets would be easier, as you could look up rather than down. Here’s a view of Plaza de la Reina:
Around Colón, which is very close to my hotel, all the big shops are located, including the department story giants like Corte Ingles. In addition, a little quarter off colón has all very nice boutique-type shops, including a jewellery-style chocolate shop. The streets in that quarter lead to the Mercado de Colón, a very nice hall that presumably used to be a covered market, but nowadays has little shops and cafés, all contained within glass cubes, inside:
Finally, here’s a picture for Carmela: Rows upon rows of zapatos:
