‘la noche en blanca’ is a large cultural event in madrid which occurred last saturday. there was free entry to museums and parties and concerts in the streets, plazas and parks. Of course, being the culture vulture that I am, I decided to take full advantage of this, and so I stayed in bed until 3pm, dossed around a bit and then went out when it was suitably late to get drunk. Indeed, I have never seen such culture. The bars were 50m long in the middle of the trendiest streets (closed to traffic for safety reasons), there were the craziest of punk/techno fusion bands playing on huge stages at a level of volume that caused small children to cry, and of course people pissing in the shop doorways. By the end of the initial festivities at 12, the streets absolutely shimmered with the vapour and nasal burning effect of people’s uria, flowing freely down the gutters. Also, the ground was stickier than you tend to find it in the most classy of London’s clubs, due to spilt booze.
I feel like I have arrived, and am slowly experiencing the real culture of Madrid. ¡Me gustarÃa estar borracho otra vez en esas calles!
Ahh Bolo, great source of cultural insight. Should have known you would begin to find your nirvana at the bottom of a bottle of cerveza.