Azuqueca

José-Luiz is the bilingual coordinator at IES Complutense. He lives in a town called Azuqueca, just the next city over. Last week was his hometown's festival. He has several friends in Peñas, which are clubs of sorts. During the city's festival, the publicly funded clubs have to host a half-public tent with free drinks in the public half. If you are in the club, you get to go into the back half and eat food. They party all night long for a week. José-Luis's friends gave us stickers which made us honorary members of the Peñas for the night.

The first Peña served sardines and jamón. Yum!

The sardine I had was actually quite good. Hollis's wasn't as good as mine.

Oh, another thing about Peñas is that everyone in a Peña dresses the same. The big peña style is to wear a collared button-up shirt over a shoulder. At the second Peña we went to, a lady gave me hers to wear so I could be cool.

We danced down the street following this peppy band, but retired early (midnight). One thing I wanted to see but didn't was the running of the bulls. Azuqueca has a smaller version of the famous event that Pamplona has.