Hi Everyone! What a week! It's the neighbourhood festival for my area this week and so there have been a lot of events going on around my house and a small carnival set up for the kids just two blocks over. Seems like another parade every day, but it's really nice to see how much community spirit there is! Also the weather has been really great, much warmer than last week (we also finally got our heat fixed, wahoo!) so I've been soaking up what little sun I have left before coming back. So here are some pictures of the weeks events for you to check out!
Birthday Brunch at one of my favorite restaurants in the city Dostrece, everyone got up VERRRRRY early for me to come :)
My birthday present from Nima & his girlfriend Elena, I feel very French when I wear this :)
Los Diablos! A parade of kids running around in little devil and dragon costumes spinning fire and running around - how fun (and slightly dangerous!)
Luckily, all the parades for the barrio go straight through our street so I can watch from my balcony!
On Friday we went to part of the festival events which was some very traditional Spanish music brought from Latin immigrants in the 20/30's era and for 5E per person you got a ticket which gave you one of these bowls of snails, a cup of beer and a double shot of hot rum and spices! Not a bad deal - too bad I don't like snails! However I did eat FIVE just to prove a point (and win a cupcake). The texture is just too much, I can't get over it.
First day of the festival, right below our house they had a stage with singing, dancing, speaking and as you can see the GIANT people.
The final day of festivities - there is something going on down the road (I can hear it because I hear the neverending sounds of fireworks) but I'm not going because I have a lot of work to do to prepare for coming HOME! But this morning there was a huge road race and I woke up and was quite surprised to look out my window and see all these people!
Birthday Brunch at one of my favorite restaurants in the city Dostrece, everyone got up VERRRRRY early for me to come :)
My birthday present from Nima & his girlfriend Elena, I feel very French when I wear this :)
Los Diablos! A parade of kids running around in little devil and dragon costumes spinning fire and running around - how fun (and slightly dangerous!)
Luckily, all the parades for the barrio go straight through our street so I can watch from my balcony!
On Friday we went to part of the festival events which was some very traditional Spanish music brought from Latin immigrants in the 20/30's era and for 5E per person you got a ticket which gave you one of these bowls of snails, a cup of beer and a double shot of hot rum and spices! Not a bad deal - too bad I don't like snails! However I did eat FIVE just to prove a point (and win a cupcake). The texture is just too much, I can't get over it.
First day of the festival, right below our house they had a stage with singing, dancing, speaking and as you can see the GIANT people.
The final day of festivities - there is something going on down the road (I can hear it because I hear the neverending sounds of fireworks) but I'm not going because I have a lot of work to do to prepare for coming HOME! But this morning there was a huge road race and I woke up and was quite surprised to look out my window and see all these people!
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