After months of agonising, wrangling and general buggering about, it has been announced that the America's Cup will be returning to Valencia next year. So, come February the city will once more be awash with designer labels, slightly annoying middle-aged British guys and high tech fibre glass yachts.I wasn't here the last time it was held, so this time I intend to make the very most of it by hanging out down at the marina with my shades on, trying to save up for a coffee at the poncey cafes. I will take photos, and report back on whatever I see. I'm not a fan of yachting but I'm pleased for the city, as what with this, the Formula One, the Moto GP, the new international tennis tournament (won just last week by Andy Murray) and a top football team, Valencia is becoming more and more prominent. In the next 2 years, the new bullet train to Madrid will open, and the airport will be further expanded (you can already fly to New York from here). And so it seems that for once in my life I seem to be in the thick of things, and for a boy that grew up in the rather gloomy Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth, that's really exciting.
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We expect to see plenty of pictures of all the excitement, and hey, what's a poncey coffee shop?
I'll do just that. 'Poncey' is a British slang expression meaning posh, or pretentious. And there'll be plenty of that sort of thing going round.
this definitely sounds more exciting than the APEC meetings that just ended here. didnt even get to see obama in real life...humph.
It is pretty cool, I can't deny it.
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