Dia de la Hispanidad 12 octubre

Today big Fiesta! The first one I could watch :) The rest is to come.. ;)

Spain has got a vast 'collection' of holidays; national and regional. 12th October is Spain's National Day and it's one of the National Holidays (really serious:). They celebrate the the arrival of Christopher Columbus (Spanish Cristobal Colon) to America. That time their ruling power begun after all :)

On that day they organize a huge parade... 1,8 km long, throught the main streets of Madrid, with lots of soldiers, of different kind (the armed forces, the air forces, the police etc.) the lines of military vehicles.... and tounsands of citizens ;) and this part I liked the most :)

The whole families came to see the parade... the young and the old... both groups decorated in some way; caps, flags, T-shirts, flags paitned on the cheeks... 

And now, an absolutely awesome cultural scene: One man from the crowd screams: " Viva España!" and the whole rest continues: "Viva!!!" "Viva España!!!"

(and now my Polish friends, imagine: Niech żyje Polska! Niech żyje! :)

My another great image of that day was that (almost)  everyone  was equipped with digital camera or phone (with the camera function of course :] - btw. they were all touchpad phones! - what a shame with the keybord nokia:P) 

Acording to this and one American novelist:
 "if there is no   f o o t a g e, it means IT doesn't exist". This is how we perceive the world today :) by our "digital eyes".
It looks so funny when you stay aside ;D Have a look - planes!

Oooh planes!

=D