Pic 1 View from Inside (looking at our at Calle Alcala, specifically Quintana barrio)
Pic 2,3 Inside the Plaza (2 - Opening ceremony, 3 - yes, that's blood in the top right corner)
Pic 4 - Outside at Ventas Metro Station, building is Plaza de Toros, constructed 1926 (I was able to take a short walk through the park near my house (Fuente del Berro) to reach here in 15 minutes.
Sorry, once again inundated with papers y otras cosas. Como resultado, short post Tomorrow the epic trip of the program to Cordoba and Granada, the Andlucia region (southern Spain). Supposed to be beautiful and quite historic. First bull fight last Sunday. Few words to describe such an experience. I have to say that I tried to approach it with a romantic heavily sentimental (this is beautiful and artistic in its own way) Hemingway kinda perspective. But, at the end of the day, the whole act seemed like I paid to witness 6 very bloody, very cruel bull executions. But, to be honest, the quality of the toreros was apparently not high, and on several occasions it took much longer to kill the bull than is normally expected (as a result, repeated stabbings of a sword into the bull's backside continually failed to have the desired effect). Safe to say, no ears were awarded. When a torero does an exceptional job (more or less, kills the bull with one stab), the bull's ear is cut off, and awarded to the bull fighter as a piece of the highest praise. This does not occur very often. Shot another video...not too detailed, but gives a bit of a perspective.
Hasta pronto jaja,
B
Picture 1 - Nicholas and I with our famed tour guide Fernando (he accompanies us on every excursion and enchances the experience tenfold with his incredibly in-depth and insightful descriptions of what we are touring and seeing, he works at the Prado Museum for his full time job
