Last night, all the madrileños came out to play. Called La Noche en Blanco, Madrid closes all the main streets to cars, opens up all museums for free until 3am, has music in the street, and sponsors an all around city-wide party! I have never seen anything like this before. Picture the streets on a football Saturday in Ann Arbor, and multiply that throughout the entire city of Madrid. Not only young people were out and about until the wee hours of the morning; I saw young kids and even old men and women exploring all the activities! I met up with Michelle, and two girls from my program: Deidre and Caitlin. I realized when I got back to my apartment at 6am that I hadn't entered a building since 9:30pm when I left my apartment. The weather wasn't too chilly, and there was so much to see! It's hard to tell in these pictures how many people there were, but it was an amazing sight. We heard rap music in the plaza de españa, reggae near gran vía, saw a comedy troop in plaza mayor, and all got blanco balloons. Around 4am, we ended the night in Sanjines, the best chocolate and churros place in all Madrid! See below.
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I went to sanjines at 4am when I was in Madrid also! soo yum.
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