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 Small personal belongings from some of the victims, structural elements from the huge camp, documents and unpublished audio-visual materials make up a rigorous and moving tour with a clear goal: knowing first-hand how a place like Auschwitz could exist and what were its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.

Travelling...

As I'm studying ITC (Informatic Technologies of Communication) I had to design a trip to Prague and draw a map of any other trip by using a tool offered by google maps (My Maps). So I decided to upload both projects here so that if anyone is interested to travel with me, you just have to contact me. 😏 I shall remind you that at the botton-right of this blog you can find my Twitter account as well as my google+ account. Don't be scared, I do not bite!

First of all you have the Prague trip. It is finished and it contains its budget and the appartment where you could sleep. Everything is thought!

On the other hand, you have here a map drawn with My Maps and you have the information for a trip through Italy. The idea is to land on Rome and take off in Bolonia, and in the meantime visit the most important cities of the country: Rome, Florence, Verona and Venice. You don't have information about the accommodation and prices, but at least you can know where is everything. You can find this map by clicking here.

Roverway 2018

This weekend I went to Murcia in order to participate in a scout event to prepare ourselves for a bigger scout event: the Roverway. This is a meeting of scouts who are between 16-20 years old no matter their country. It helds every 2 years always in July, and this year it takes place in the Netherlands near of Amsterdam from 23rd July to 2nd August. So this weekend (17-18) the idea was to meet everybody together so we could know who are we travelling with, since from my scout group, for instance, there are only 7 of us, whereas more than 50 scouts in Murcia are participating in the Roverway. Besides, during the camp we will be organised in patrols (in my case platypus), which will be mixed with international patrols, so we are going to sleep and share experiences with, for example, british or weedish scouts!

This year Roverway's slogan is 'Opposites attract' (as it's shown below) because the idea is to join people from different countries all around Europe who are going to be pretty different among themselves. Take into account that Irish scouts will meet Turkish ones, and their respective culture is really different. The event will be organised in 2 parts: the first one is called 'paths' and it lasts the first 4 days of the Roverway. Every patrol is going to do a path or route with international patrols to discover the Netherlands and do some exercise as well as interesting activities. The path is previouly chosen by the patrols, and I'll tell you our favourite one so you can imagine who are more or less these paths. So we have decided to do a path called 'Pride in the south' where we are going to walk through the hills in the south of the Netherlands, play laser tag in the middle of the forest, explore some caverns, visit Maastritch and make rafting in a river. I'm reeeaaally looking forward to finishing the EBAU so I can live all these experiences!

If you want to know more about this awesome event, click here to get redirected to the official website.

My trip to Granadilla

Hellooo! Last October I had the pleasure of travelling to Granadilla, an abandoned village in Extremadura. As we had to do a project there, the teacher that came with us thought that we could play a game called Jugger, as well as spread it among the other students that we met in Granadilla, who came from Huelva and Almería. Jugger is a really interesting sport which is however barely known in Spain. Apart from playing Jugger, we have loads of fun due to tha different activites that were organised. The funniest one was the simulated wedding between me and a classmate, Santa. The idea was to recreate a wedding from the Middle ages, so we all put on a costume and went to the village church to make the marriage official, as it's shown below:



























On the other hand, we helped as far as we could in every task of rehabilitation and maintenance of the village. For instance, we fixed some windows, fed and took care for the animals, helped in the kitchen and became real farmers. We learn a lot about how people used to live in these village 50 years ago, without Internet and some other XXI-century developments. Thanks to Granadilla and all its community for this awesome and unforgettable experience!