The monegros desert festival

Last week-end i was supposed to go to Marrakech, but then something came up and i had to cancel the trip with my friends and find something else to do… and i fell on this website telling about a desert festival…the Monegros…
I’ve never heard of it before but here in Spain, it’s very famous…
So Wednesday, I just went to the shop, bought my ticket for the festival and the bus ticket and went…
The desert is in Fraga, near Zaragoza and about 5 hours drive away from Madrid…I went decided to go there on my own because none of the people that I know here wanted to come with me…they said I was crazy but I already knew that, so..there was no way for me that I’d miss that huge party on that special day 07/07/07…
Lot’s of concerts, starting from 17h30 Saturday till 13h30 Sunday…non stop music, in the middle of nowhere and people coming from everywhere from Spain and Europe, specially for this event!! I’ve never seen that many people, never been to a 21 hours of non stop music…
21 hours without even stopping dancing, without sitting, without eating and without sleeping…dancing and drinking because it was incredibly hot!! Shorts and bikini tops…it was a hell of a party…so excited to see the sun setting down…the night…sun rising again…
Putting cream on my body as if I was on the beach to not be burnt by the sun…
I danced till I couldn’t feel nor my feet, nor my body…it was fantastic…an experience I’d do again and again…it happens once a year and I’m looking forward to the next one…
I even saw Snoop Doggy Dog…
For those who are interested in the details, well you can still check out the web site…
http://www.monegrosfestival.com/

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My last weeks have been like this…a lot of rush…
I left Casablanca on the 10th of June after a wonderful week-end on a lake in Marrakech with 4 of the dearest people to me…
Leaving Casablanca was really painful…lots of people I care about are there…
I arrived in Madrid on the 14th…1st time in Spain…
It’s a nice and big city…haven’t seen all of it yet…
1st week-end here…? Raining all day long…hard to go out…
1st Sunday…when the rain stopped for a while…I went with some friends to the Latina…Spanish people go from bar to bar and start drinking beers at 10 in the morning…doing what they call here la caña…
I’ve visited la puerta del sol, la plaza mayor and all those beautiful streets around…full of people…full of shops…
It’s summer here and there’s always something to do…and whatever you do, event if it’s nothing, you just sleep late at night…people go for lunch at 2pm…don’t leave before 7pm the office and it’s no surprise to see them out for dinner at 11pm…
Waking up each morning it’s like a pain in the ass…really hard!!
2nd week-end…more exciting…I went to this metrorock event…lot’s of concerts…people everywhere in the park dancing, talking, kissing, smoking (everything…), chatting and even sleeping…
And I ended it with a complete visit of the Prado museum…beautiful…
It’s so nice to be able to sit outside on a café place and just look at people pass by…live their lives…
3rd week…a little bit of shopping…the sales have started a long time ago here…and 3rd week-end…well I just missed my friends in Casablanca and had to back there and visit them…
Can’t believe I’m already on my fourth week here already…it’s hot, it’s nice…and I’ve visited an old Egyptian temple near la Plaza España…before buying myself a ticket for the Monegros desert festival this week-end…sarturday, 07/07/07…huge party in the desert of Fraga…I’m going alone but I’m gonna be with thousands people coming from all over Spain and Europe…it’s gonna be awesome…I can feel it already…(for those who wanna check out the website http://www.monegrosfestival.com/ )

Well there’s also the San fermines parties going on in Pamplona and starting this week-end too…people go to see Taurus running after people…then they rest on the streets waiting for the parties to start…a whole week…but it’s just impossible to see it all…I had to make a choice…
And I forgot to tell you about the Europride…well yes…Madrid held the Europride this year…5 days of gay pride…european capital…I’ve been to the Chueca last Wednesday and Thursday night…free outside parties…you just go out of the metro station and you’re there already…it was so much fun…the show would end at half past midnight…and the people would just stay there…doing their own after party or going to the bars and discos around…it’s just impossible to do it everyday and go to work the next morning…but Thursday night is THE night to go out…and today is Thursday!!
I haven’t seen the huge defile of the gay pride last Saturday because I wasn’t in Madrid…but the people I went to see meant much more to me than any other party…so I have no regrets…
And there’s still a lot to come…
If any of you are interested in Ricky martin…well he’s performing here on the 11th of July…and in Norah Jones, it’s gonna be on the 20th of July in Barcelona…Think about it… The rolling Stones did their concert last Thursday…

The one good thing about being here…alone…is at least that I get to practise my Spanish…and I can feel that my five years of studying Spanish in high school well …it’s wasn’t a waste of time…

That’s all for now folks…got to get back to work...