Nicolas Jackson is given a tour of The City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia by its scientific director, Manuel Toharia. This massive cultural complex is positioned along the axis of what was formerly the bed of the River Turia in Spain's third largest city and thriving mediterranean port.

Manuel Toharia, scientific director of the institution, is at once a scientist, author, journalist and musician whose face was for many years recognised across Spain as the weather man at Radio Televisión Española.