Dinner at the Tapas bar at Hospes Amerigo

Edward Persson, my colleague and I. A very nice dinner!

Dismantling has started

And they are off!

Survived the first stopover for Volvo Ocean Race! The boats left yesterday! Unfortunately, due to change of mobile phone, all the posts I've made the last week has not been uploaded. To see the posts please go to the following link:
http://mawlot218.blogspot.com/

Have had the day off, almost.. We had a debriefing with Hansen. A very nice lunch and a very good meeting! Everything has been running very smothly! The Stopover has been a huge success both for Volvo Ocean Race organisation, Volvo and Alicante city!

Anyway, the boats are off. Follow the action on:
http://www.volvooceanrace.org/

Currently the Ericsson boats are in the lead, but it's about 20 days left til they are in Cape Town, so a lot can happen. I'm leaving Alicante tomorrow for Sweden for about three weeks and then I'm heading off for Cape Town.

Have to go as we are going out for dinner and they will soon be waiting for me.... See you soon!

Alicante by night

Finally some time off!

10 hours sleep some time on the beach massage and dinner in town in civil clothes. What more to ask?

Next race 2011 is announced

Entertainment in race village

Has to follow the race from shore

Finally it has started

Inport race has started!

Boarding the boats

Time for inport race

Telefonica goes out

Live from tv4 morgonsoffan

In our volvo pavilion

Morning in race village

Now it's all happening

Late night in Race Village

Sitting on the balcony of our beutiful pavilion. We have a great view from here over the Race village and the whole harbour! The rain has finally stopped and there are quite a lot of people in Race village moving around. A spanish speaker, or it might be the spanish comedian they talked about this morning?, is entertaining at the stage. He is talking very fast at least! The days are flying by down here, from early in the morning til late at night. I have the night shift in the Pavilion for the second night, which means staying here til 24.00, so the days easily get to be long. I have kept up the morning walks more or less every day, which I'm very proud of! Today there was a shorter one as it rained, but still so good to get out for a while before the day really starts! Rosers our caterer is giving us so much good food, which is a good change from the nearby restaurants!

Time to get back to the never ending amount of e-mails to be answered...

The new office

Our very nice hospitality part, volvo@sea lounge.

Amstel bar

The place to take a beer

Trampbilarna are popular!

20 min after opening

The volvo pavilion