Valladolid, Castile-León, Spain and Canary Islands
I suppose I have an interesting week to update. Starting with the only mildly interesting recap of Halloween moving on to my experience in the Spanish hospital system. Oh yes, it has been a fun week.
Anyways, starting with Halloween. Halloween is a fairly new holiday over here (imported for the English countries....Ireland/US), and their interpretation of it is a little different than ours. Only the children and college students dress up, but the costumes are very different. There are no funny costumes, no political costumes, and no...err...slutty costumes for the ladies. Everything is only scary, including the women. It was quite a shock to see girls our age dressed in full face paint as a dead person, instead of as a naughty school teacher or some other porn star variation. In any case, we spent the night trying to get pictures with as many dressed up people as we could. It led to some interesting conversations ...Read the full article