The rest of my trip to Madrid

I must apologize because of my behaviour yesterday. I was really excited and I needed to tell you how was my experience in Harry Potter's exhibition, so I forgot something... Telling you about the rest of my trip!

Apart from Harry Potter's one, we also visited another exhibition (we had to take advantage of being in the capital city!) related to Auschwitz-Birkenau's concentration camps. It was an exhibition co-produced by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for the first time in history which shows an extraordinary collection of more than 600 original exhibits of inestimable historic and human value, that offer direct witness to one of the darkest chapters of humankind. Small personal belongings from some of the victims, structural elements from the huge camp, documents and unpublished audio-visual materials make up a rigorous and moving tour with a clear goal: knowing first-hand how a place like Auschwitz could exist and what were its terrible consequences. The great majority of the objects, pictures and audio-visual materials in this exhibition have never been shown to an audience before. Here you have some pictures I took. Every time I see them, I have a shiver down my spine, since  it must have been waful what these objects have witnessed:

On the other hand, speaking with a happier tone, we really enjoyed our stay in Madrid, since our appartment was in Fuenlabrada street, so we were almost until midnight having a walk in Madrid's main streets and Squares: Puerta del Sol, Callao, Gran Vía, La castellana with Kio Towers, ect. We also had dinner in a typical restaurant were squid sandwiches tasted reeeaally good (and where beer is also excellent). I strongly recommend you to go to Madrid, bacuse it is a modern city where it's assured to have a good time:

Harry Potter exhibition

If you are a Harry Potter fan, I recommend you to take a look into this. Last Saturday, I went to IFEMA, in Madrid, in order to discover more of the Magic World of J.K. Rowling thanks to Harry Potter: The Exhibition. This is an itinerant exhibition of more than 1,400 square meters, where visitors can admire in first person the artifacts used in the Harry Potter films, enjoy the scenarios inspired by the sets of the filmography, and surprise with the incredible manual and artistic work that hide behind the costumes and the original fantastic creatures of the film. You can also discover some of the most popular movie locations, including the common room and the Gryffindor bedroom, classrooms such as Potions or Herbology, and the Forbidden Forest. These scenarios contain hundreds of costumes and creatures that were used during the filming of the iconic movies. Visitors can enter into the Quidditch field and throw a Quaffle ball, extract a Mandrake from the pot in Herbology class, and even walk through Hagrid's cabin and sit in its gigantic chair. I assure you that this is an unforgettable experience if you have ever read or watch anything related to Harry Potter. 

Here you have some pictues of mine inside the exhibition. They show me with the Sorting Hat (I was chosen to go to Ravenclaw, the one I wanted!), extracting a Mandrake, in the main entrance of Gryffindor's main room with the Fat Lady and  with Hogwarts' shield.

The meeting night (La Noche del Encuentro)

Today is the night of the 'Encuentro'! I'm really excited because this is one of the most wonderful nights in Cartagena of the whole year. As you know, we are in Holy week, a festivity whose purpose is to recreate scenes of Jesus' life in a parades called 'Procesiones'. So tonight's parade is specially beautiful, since three different parades meet at a big square in Cartagena in order to sing a Salmo to the Virgin. The coordination must be extremely high, and lots of people participate in the event to make it unforgettable, despite being held each year. I'm not a believer (I think God does not exist), but in any case I always get excited when the parades arrive and everybody is in silence to listen to the Salve. It's an experience I recommend you all!

Here I attach some pictures, so that you can imagine how amasinz this event could be. These pictures weren't taken by me, due to I always arrive a little bit late and I haven't got a good place to record it. There's a huge amount of people who is expecting to watch the Christ!

Here you have a Web URL too. It belongs to the catholical organisation which is in charge to organise the whole event. It also takes part in the other 'Procesiones' that set up the Holy Week in Cartagena. This organisation is called 'Cofradía Marraja': http://www.marrajos.es/