My visit to volvo race village

Cochin was gearing up to Vovlo race stop over for the past two months. Almost every where I turn there would be posters and banners about it.There was a stopover at Kochi from Dec 3rd to 10th.

Volvo race is not a one day affair ,the race goes on for 9 months covering different parts of the world.During the nine months of the 2008-09 Volvo, which starts in Alicante, Spain in October 2008 and concludes in St Petersburg, Russia, during late June 2009, the teams will sail over 37,000 nautical miles of the world’s most treacherous seas via Cape Town, Kochi, Singapore, Qingdao, around Cape Horn to Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Galway, Goteborg and Stockholm.It is undeniably the world’s premier global race and one of the most demanding team sporting events in the world.

I went to the race village where all the yatches were docked for maintainence,so in the mean time racers could relax a while and prepare for the next journey in the rough seas.There was a cultural festival week also happening with rock show going on every night.There was an exhibition where in lots information about boats and yatches were given.A motor boat costs around 95000 bucks,thought of getting one but there were lots of constraints should find a proper place to park,where to go in that,etc.

Had dinner in one of the stalls there ,listened to Rock music.Only regret was not able to get into simulated yatch as the queue for it was pretty long.All in all a good outing indeed.