Por suerte y por desgracia, pertenezco a esa parte de la población que por placer y por trabajo, viajo mucho al extranjero, desde hace muchos años, pero siempre con un móvil (como mínimo) en el bolsillo. La posibilidad de comunicarte con la gente de casa o con los locales, hace que al final acabes usando el teléfono en mayor o menos medida, y antes de eso, qué menos que informarte bien de cuanto cuesta ese mensaje de “ya he llegado”, o esa llamada para aclarar las indicaciones que te han dado, ¿no?
Bueno, parece que esto no es muy evidente, y últimamente he oído muchas conversaciones de gente hablando sobre los costes de las llamadas en su destino de vacaciones, y quiero colaborar en la erradicación de algunos de estos mitos, sin entrar en detalles de costes.
Great saturday or sunday plan: get out of the city, do some exercise and breath fresh air… In the last weeks, I have been twice to the area of Manzanares (nice castle!) and La Pedriza, in the northwest of Madrid, and here I post a couple of pictures for the record.
Last weekend I was invited to an Easter Bonnet party. The hostess wanted to organize a party to enjoy the good weather, and thought this could be a good topic for it, even though it was a bit early for any Easter celebration.
So, she fixed the expectations: everybody wearing an Easter bonnet, as per the the Wikipedia explanation, i.e. a hat with flowers, self-made. The outcome of the party can be seen in the pictures included in this post. Most people made a quick reading and retained the idea of to “wearing some sort of hat, with things ‘decorating’ it”…
Every first Sunday of each month, in an airfield in the South of Madrid called Cuatro Vientos, there is a special air exhibition. There is a foundation named Infante de Orleans devoted to restore and maintain classic aircrafts from the old times. It is quite a good way to spend a Sunday morning.
It starts with a static exhibition of the different aircrafts that the foundation owns (ranging from aircrafts from different airforces to a training plane from Iberia, apart from the plane for the best Spanish acrobatics pilot from history)…
… and concludes with the air exhibition where every single plane has its show time. It is great to see how these old planes still fly, and how different things are from today.
Moreover, the Spanish acrobatics team is based in the same airfield, and they also have their time of playing with their planes like kids play with their toys.
All in all, an unmissable event (at least, once) if you like planes at any degree.
More pictures from these exhibitions in this slideshow.
