Picasso & The Cup Spies

We made it to Barcelona! After a travel day yesterday we arrived early afternoon. Vela wasn't feeling too flash so we had an easy evening hanging around the hotel.

But today we hit the streets. First stop was the Picasso Museum. There was a massive collection of sketches, paintings and other creative works. We particularly liked his collection of pigeon paintings from his time in Nice - all painted within a week of each other. There was a short video as well which really impressed upon us the speed at which he worked. It was also interesting to see how his style developed over time, from realistic paintings, through his blue period, to the distortionate style he is most well known for. Despite all this, I'm not sure he's ever seen what a dog actually looks like...

After Picasso we took a short stroll down to the Americas cup village. There wasn't much going on today, not sure if any of the teams were on the water. However we did play cup spy and noticed a white shrink-wrapped package tucked away in a corner... A little snooping and it turns out that ETNZ's race boat to defend the cup arrived into Barcelona last night, not long after we had arrived!

We headed for a closer look, hoping to find someone we could volunteer our unwrapping services to - no luck on that front. We did get around the other side and made a human tower to peek over the fence, we got a good view of the Taihoro's stern, a view we're sure the defenders will get sick of seeing come race time!

We've booked ourselves onto a boat trip to hopefully watch some of these machines fly around later in the week!Read more