Cavalcada de Reis

Here 6.1. is Day of the Three Kings which is kind of another christmas for spanish people, or even more important day so of course they celebrate it greatly. I heard from our caretaker that on the eve there would be some kind of parade in the center. Of course we wanted to see it because it was our first Day of the Three Kings and first parade ever. We planned that firstly we would go to the PikPan, one Colombian restaurant we like very much and then we would walk to area where the parade would go.

 Luckily weather wasn't bad...

 New hoodies.

 Waiting for bus.

First time we went to the PikPan, we were exploring new area of the city and we started to be a little hungry and we watched restaurants' ads when some woman shouted to us "come here, we have delicious food etc etc..." so we decided to try, and after that we haven't regretted! Someday have to do some kind of post of foods we have eaten here.

 Patacon con ternera, muymuy rico!

 Arroz con pollo.

After eating we left quickly and walked towards the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and from Calle de San Vicente Mártir we found suitable place to stay. On both sides of the street were one row of seats but those were fully loaded because time was something like 17.30 and parade would start at 18.00. But luckily we were right after the seat row so we could see pretty well.

 Notice the temperature.

In that time there wasn't lot of people yet.

 
We had no idea what it's going to be so we hadn't been prepared properly. Every kid had own bag where they could collect candies, some parents even had umbrellas turned upside down. You had to come early if you wanted a good place so some parents had also newspapers to read and so on. But now we are little wiser so we know to prepare better next time...

The time is getting closer.

Exciting moments...

Different fire trucks.

The parade continued, and continued, and continued... Lot of more and more impressive vehicles, people with different costumes, circus actors doing their tricks, lot of police cars and fire trucks and ambulances etc... And almost from every vehicle they threw either candies or some toys to people. There were lot of nice things to see and of course our camera's battery died like in the middle of the parade.

Ahora podría decir algo en español pero tengo que volver a trabajar así quizás próximo tiempo...

Últimos días de 2011

Again time has gone so fast that I haven't had enough time to write a new post, or maybe I just have been lazy because of holiday but it isn't wrong, right?

I don't have lot of to tell, end of the year gone just relaxing, enjoying the weather, playing with boys, doing little shopping and so on...

 We were searching a health center when we found

this nice playground.

Inside of other shopping mall called Aqua is a little skating rink where people can try to skate while they are shopping so of course we went to try it. But have to say that it was easily the worst experience of skating, because it wasn't even skating but only walking with skates. But what you can expect from ice which is really made by plastic pieces. However I can't complain because boys liked it, maybe because it was their first time skating and they don't know better. Staff didn't wonder anymore why we didn't like the skating rink when I said that we are from Finland.

 Still there was lot of people queuing for it.

 Jasu was really happy after and said many times:

"I had so fun!" :D

 There was also one king receiving children's gift

lists and giving candies because here day of the

kings is another christmas.

Last day of the year 2011 I had little trainings in our normal training place near to Palau de la Música, or actually in front of it. Weather was again something to where I haven't been used to in Finland at the end of the year as you can see from the pictures below!

 Jhon wishes happy new year to everyone! :D

Shortly before midnight we went to rooftop with Neea to change the year immemorial way, long way away from Finland. We expected that here would have been massive fireworks on new year's eve, but no, some little fireworks here and there but nothing big like on the Spanish national day.

 Welcome 2012!

Mañana intentaré escribir sobre nuestro Día de los Reyes.

Felices fiestas!

Estoy un poco tarde escribiendo este pero no pasa nada. Ayer tuvimos muchas cosas a hacer así no tuve tiempo a escribir...

¡Feliz Navidad y muy buen Año Nuevo a todos!


I'm little late for writing this but it doesn't matter. Yesterday we had so much to do so I hadn't enough time to write...

Merry Christmas and really happy New Year to everyone!

And then some photos from yesterday, just some because of this connection...

 Santa had visited here in the night...

Santa-chocopop, YAMIII!

 Inside the christmas area.

 Otto watching Santa. :D

 Boys went to christmas train.

There was built a little village, I guess Bethlehem.

 Spanish Stockman.

 Christmas family portrait.

 New puzzles, surprisingly cars.

 Hugo came to visit and got gifts from boys.

 Before christmas our caretaker Ronaldo promised

to come to visit on christmas to wish merry christmas

to us and so he did!

Tricking in Villarreal

Last week's saturday I went to Villarreal (in Valencian: Vila-real) to train tricking with my local friends. Villarreal is one part of the city of Castellon and it's located about 60 kilometers from Valencia to north. Distance is pretty short but by commuter train it took about 50 minutes to get there. And round trip was only a little more than 7 euros, not bad.

More than 10 people came from Valencia by train, and in Villarreal there were lot of more people from Castellon area, I guess there were at least 40 trainers. It’s funny because here it was like normal trainings with local people but in Finland this size of trainings would be a gathering with people around the country.

Gym is really nice place to train, there is lot of gymnastics stuff, mattresses, big soft gymnastic floor and pool with soft cubes which name in English I don’t know. We had four hours to train, from 4 to 8 so I had to take it easy because I had been a bit sick few weeks before those trainings.

Hungry people. :D

Conductor was really interested on our sport so we showed some

videos to him.

Little warming up before trainings. :D

Lot of stops before destination...

Little more interesting landscapes than in Finland?

After train we walked to other side of the city.

Finally!

Pool with soft cubes.

Gymnastic floor, very good and soft.

 

Group photo. Not everyone on this photo because some people

left before our turn ended. 

Now I can't add any videoclips with this bad internet connection but maybe I update this post on work next week, let't see...

Era muy buen viaje y toda la peña era muy amable y divertido, me gustó mucho! Pero es una cosa que no me gusta, solo ida tarda dos horas más o menos. En Valencia hay un gym también pero no podemos usar eso así tenemos que ir a Villarreal si queremos entrenar en gym. Normalmente entrenamos aquí en cesped frente de Palau de la Música.

Y gracias a Neea sobre mi viaje de entrenamiento!