Another great day... I thought the weather must always be this good but apparently we are having exceptionally good fine weather for this time of the year. Today many of the team went on a tour up into a mountain village.... It felt like we were seeing something of "real Spain". Will post some photos of that later.
Slideshow of images from this morning's training. I tried to capture images of some team members that I didn't get shots of yesterday.
85 images...
The team were talking last night about the "experience" of going down to the beach. It's a couple of kilometers walk from our hotel to the beach front. I took a walk after breakfast this morning, getting back at about 1.30pm or so - right in the height of the heat. I'm guessing the temperature is around thirty degrees in the middle of the day... enough to break into a good sweat when walking in it. There's not a cloud to be seen and it looks like it hasn't rained in a long time. There's only the slightest of breeze.
If you've seen the TV programme Benidorm then this is just like it. It's a huge area of hotels lining miles and miles of beach. The beach is super crowded by our standards - like what you see in al those crowds on beaches that you see in photos of the Med. Except here the tourist population seem to be 100% middle-age to mostly elderly large British. The only Spanish around are working in the shops, taxis, buses, hotels and restaurants.
There's an abundance of those electric 4 wheel scooters, occasionally with one large lady sitting on the lap of another to get a lift :)
Here's a couple more photos...
At 6.30am Benidorm time (5.30pm NZ time) the NZ Team assembled for their first training session. We have a large room in the hotel 100% available to the team for training. They have to be careful as the floor which can be a bit slippery but it all seemed to work pretty well.
The team are now off having breakfast and have the day off until 5.30pm when they're having a Haka practice.
Top Countries
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poland | 13 | 6 | 8 |
| 2 | Ireland | 10 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | New Zealand | 8 | 7 | 11 |
| 4 | Russian Federation | 6 | 6 | 8 |
| 5 | Germany | 4 | 5 | 6 |
2013 NZ Team World Champs Results
