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Monday, May 9, 2011

The Willis Tower, Skydeck. La torre Willis, Skydeck

Hola!! Veis esos balcones?? Veis que hay gente? Pues esos balcones pertenecen a la torres Willis de Chicago, el edificio mas alto de la ciudad y la estructura mas alta del mundo gracias a sus antenas :). En breves momentos vereis nuestras andanzas subiendo hasta el piso 103 de este rascacielos y como no, disfrutando de las vistas desde el punto mas alto de la ciudad y sobre todo, de sus balcones al vacio.
Hi!! Can you see those balconies? Can you see people standing there? Those balconies belong to the Willis tower, the highest building of Chicago and the highest structure of the world thanks to its antennae :). I'll show you how was our day going up to the 103 floor and how we enjoyed the view from this point. Of course, we also went on the balconies :)


Aqui teneis otra fotito del edificio, si os fijais bien, se ven los balcones muy, muy arriba.
Here you have another picture of the building. If you look carefully you can see the balconies.


La torre Willis es otro de los sitios que aun nos quedaban por ver en esta maravillosa ciudad, asi que otro domingo mas, nos fuimos a explorar mas sitios de Chicago. Llegamos a la ciudad en unos 30 minutos, casi directamente a la torre y tuvimos suerte, no habia ninguna espera para pasar. La ultima vez que probamos, habia una cola de 2 horas ;). Las entradas cuestan 17 $ para adultos, la mas basica, que incluye una visita a un pequeño museo, la subida a la torre y pasar a los balcones. Por supuesto, hay otras entradas mas caras para evitar la cola, etc. En la planta baja vimos el pequeño museo dedicado a Chicago, donde se cuentan cosas de la ciudad, gente importante que ha nacido alli y se habla de la historia de Chicago.
The Willis tower was one of the places we still had to visit in this wonderful city so again on Sunday, we decided to continue exploring more parts of the city. We arrived there in around 30 minutes, we went by train and we arrived almost at the door of the tower. We didn't have to wait this time as in the summer, when the waiting time was of about 2 hours ;). The tickets were 17 $ each and it is the most basic one, including a visit to a small museum on the first floor, going up to the 103 floor and of course, going to the balconies. There are other kinds of tickets just to avoid the waiting time, but the basic one is completely fine.
We first visited the museum dedicated to historical facts of Chicago, important people born here, etc.


Despues montamos en el ascensor, que solo tardo un minuto en subir hasta el piso 103 mientras nos iban indicando la altura de monumentos del mundo como las piramides o la torre Eiffel. La presion en los oidos era bastante fuere, menos mal que solo tardamos un minuto en subir, jeje!
After the museum we went into the elevator to go up to the 103 floor in only 1 minute :). During the short trip, the heights of other monuments and important buildings of the world were showed on a screen. For example, the great pyramid is as high as the 40th floor and the Eiffel tower is as high as the 80th floor. I had a lot of pressure in my ears. Luckily the trip took only 60 seconds :)


Una vez arriba, visitamos otro pequeño museo con mas curiosidades de la ciudad, como por ejemplo, actores, escritores, artistas y politicos que nacieron alli y tambien, muchas de las peliculas que han sido rodadas en la ciudad.
Once on the 103 floor we visited another small museum with more interesting facts about Chicago. We saw which actors, writers, artists and politicians were born in the city. We could also see some of the movies which were filmed in the city.


Por fin pudimos disfrutar de las vistas. En un dia claro, sin nubes o niebla, se puede divisar una distancia de al menos 50 millas, casi 100 kilometros. Es impresionante.
Tambien os enseño algunas fotos que nos echamos en los balcones. La gente estaba un poco asustada y me parecia gracioso, pero os puedo decir, que cuando fue mi turno, me impresiono muchisimo :). Estar a esa altura, con todo transparente alrededor da un poco de yuyu, jeje! Pero fue fantastico ;). Espero que os haya gustado!! :)
We could enjoy the view finally. In a clear day without clouds or mist you can see almost a distance of 50 miles. It is impressive!
Here I also show you some of the pictures we took from the balconies. Some people were a bit scared and I thought it was funny, but when I could go in the balcony I could feel something weird in my stomach, it was very impressive!! So high, on the transparent floor, it is a bit scary, haha! But really fantastic :). Hope you liked it!! :)

Monday, May 2, 2011

Albany Park 2. Tre Kronor

Hola a todos! Hoy os voy a contar lo que hicimos el domingo pasado. Como os dije anteriormente, el barrio de "Albany Park" me gusto mucho, pero nos quedaron algunas zonas por visitar. En particular, me quede con ganas de ver la parte sueca. Hay una pequeña parte del barrio que es totalmente escandinava, con tiendas, parques y lo mejor, un restaurante de comida sueca, noruega y danesa :)
Hi everyone! Today I'll tell you what we did last Sunday. As I told you before I really liked Albany Park, but there were still some parts that we still had to visit. There is a Swedish part of the neighborhood that we wanted to visit. There are shops, parks and the best part, a Scandinavian food restaurant :)
El domingo pasado, entre otras cosas, fuimos a "Tre Kronor", que significa "la tumba" y no es algo tan raro, jeje! Se llama asi porque antiguamente en Suecia, la comida se solia guardar bajo la tierra para poder conservarla, no tiene nada que ver con los muertos :). El sitio es muy acogedor y en la carta se puede encontrar toda clase de platos tipicos escandinavos: arenques, ensalada de patata, albondigas suecas, etc. Esto ultimo es lo que se pidio Thomas y yo, una variedad de huevos llamados "huevos florentina", parecido a los huevos benedicto. Aqui os dejo algunas fotos :) la mia es horrible, es que Thomas no miro muy bien si la foto estaba en condiciones o no, jeje!
Last week we went to "Tre Kronor" which means "The grave". It has a reasonable explanation. Apparently in the past in the Scandinavian countries, it was common to keep the food under the ground in order to preserve it during long periods of time. The name doesn't have anything to do with dead bodies or the cemetery :)
The place is super cozy and all kind of Scandinavian dishes can be found on its menu cart: herring, potato salad, Swedish meatballs, etc. Thomas order the meatballs and I ordered "eggs florentine" kind of eggs benedict. Here you can see some pics. I look horrible, but I leave it for you to see the food.


Albany Park me encanta y poco a poco iremos visitando todos los sitios que nos quedan. La proxima vez, intentaremos visitar la parte camboyana. De momento, os recomiendo ir a "Tre Kronor". La comida esta buenisima y la gente es encantadora ;)
I really like Albany park and I hope we can visit the other parts of the neighborhood. Next time I'd like to visit the Cambodian memorial museum. If you are around the Chicago area, don't forget to visit "Tre Kronor", the food was great and the service was charming ;)

Monday, April 25, 2011

Chicago Botanic Garden. Jardin botanico de Chicago

Hola a todos!! Hoy es domingo y por fin tengo tiempo para escribir un poco :). Tenia muchisimas ganas de ir a algun sitio, hacer cosas, ver sitios nuevos, etc. De hecho, me pongo bastante "farruca" si llega el fin de semana y no tengo ningun plan, pero teniendo tan poco tiempo libre, tambien es normal quedarse descasando un poco.
Como sabeis, tengo una larga lista de sitios a los que quiero ir y cosas por hacer. Hoy hemos hecho una de ellas, hemos ido a uno de los jardines botanicos de los alrededores, en concreto al "Chicago Botanic Garden".
Hi all!! Today is Sunday and I finally have some time to write :). I was looking forward to go somewhere, do something, see new places, etc. In fact, I become very angry if the weekend arrives and we don't have plans, but the truth is that we don't have a lot of time.
As you know I have a long list of things to do. Today we've done one of those. We've gone to one of the botanic gardens of Chicago, the "Chicago Botanic Garden" :)
Este jardin botanico es enorme, hemos llegado facilmente despues de 20 minutos en tren y 20 andando. Por suerte el tiempo acompañaba, aunque aun hace fresco. Es gratuito y hay una gran variedad de arboles, plantas de todo el mundo, etc. Hay invernaderos, una sala de arboles frutales y hortalizas, una sala de bonsais, un jardin ingles y la parte que mas me ha gustado, un jardin japones absolutamente precioso!!
This botanic garden is huge. We've arrived there after 20 mins of train and 20 mins walking. Luckily the weather was very nice, even though it wasn't too warm.
You can enter for free and there is an amazing variety of trees, plants and flowers from all over the world. There are also green houses, a room for fruit trees and vegetables, a bonsai exposition (it was closed this time), an English garden and my favorite part, an absolutely beautiful Japanese garden.
Pasamos el dia muy relajadamente, haciendo fotos, caminando entre los jardines, leyendo sobre todos los tipos de flores, etc. Aqui os dejo algunas fotos en las que salimos Thomas y yo y tambien fotos de las flores, plantas, etc.
We had a very relaxing day, we took pictures, walked around the gardens, we read everything about the flowers, etc. Here you can see some picture of us and the flowers :)


Algunas flores :) Some flowers :)


Por ultimo, os dejo las fotos del jardin japones, precioso!
Finally, the pictures of the Japanese garden, wonderful!



Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Albany Park

Hola amigos!! Se que hace mucho que no escribo, pero creo que no he hecho nada en este tiempo que sea digno de escribir en el blog :), aunque la vida de una quimica da mucho de si, pero el texto resultaria demasiado friky, jeje!!
El tiempo parece que esta mejorando un poco y ayer fue un dia excepcional, hizo calor, unos 28 grados y mucho sol. La pena es que solo fue ayer, pero al menos lo aprovechamos.
Hacia tiempo que no saliamos y este fin de semana lo hemos pasado muy bien. El sabado cenamos en "The cellar", mi sitio favorito de Evanston y ayer salimos a hacer una visita a uno de los barrios de Chicago que queria visitar, Albany Park.
Hi all!! It's been very long since I don't write, but nothing really blog worthy happened lately, even though the life of a chemist can be very intense :). However, I don't want the post to be too freaky, heeh!
The weather seems to be getting better and yesterday it was a super warm day. It was around 28 C and very sunny. Unfortunately, that was only yesterday :) but at least, we did a lot of thigs.
It was long since we didn't go out, so we went to "The Cellar" for dinner on Saturday. It is my favorite place in Evanston and yesterday, we visited one of Chicago's neighborhoods, Albany Park.
Albany Park es un barrio de inmigrantes, donde por un momento parece que estes en otro pais. En realidad, parece que te desplazas a mas de 10 paises :) ya que hay tiendas, restaurantes y gentes de todas las partes del mundo.
Una gran parte de la poblacion, junto con las tiendas y restaurantes, es latina, mejicana en especial, pero tambien de otros paises como Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, etc. La cantidad de restaurantes mejicanos es alucinante, demasiado donde elegir y los supermercados con los productos tipicos mejicanos estan por todas partes.
Albany Park is an immigrant neighborhood and for a moment you think you are living in a different country, well in many other different countries :) since there are shops, restaurants and people from all over the world.
A big part of the shops and restaurants are Latin, especially Mexican, but other countries can be found, like Nicaragua, Peru, Honduras, etc. The amount of Mexican restaurants is amazing, too many choices :) and you can also find stores with typical Mexican products.
Otra de las zonas de este barrio es de Oriente Medio y hay varios restaurantes libaneses, panaderias, restaurantes iraquies, etc. Hay un monton de productos tipicos que eran desconocidos para mi, me encanto.
Aqui podeis ver algunas fotos del barrio. Esteticamente no es lo mejor de Chicago, pero el ambiente es buenisimo, hay mucha gente por todas partes, es seguro y se puede ver todo el rato a gente que viene del centro de Chicago en busca de comida o tiendas exoticas.
There is also a zone dedicated to Middle Eastern countries where Lebanese restaurants and bakeries can be found, as well as Iraqi kebabs. There are tones of products which were unknown for me, I loved it!
Here you can see some pictures of the neighborhood. It is not the most beautiful part of Chicago, but the ambient is super cool, there are a lot of people, it is safe and a lot of people are coming from downtown to spend the day looking for exotic food.

Panaderia libanesa donde compramos baklawa. Lebanese bakery where we bought baklawa.

Restaurante iraqui. Iraqui restaurant


Otra parte de este barrio es mayoritariamente coreano. Hay muchos centros de salud orientales, dentistas, oftalmologos, etc, pero todo oriental.
Cerca de aqui hay tambien una comunidad sueca, si! sueca :) con un restaurante sueco, un parque sueco e incluso un museo. La pena es que no nos dio tiempo a visitarlo todo, asi que esto queda pendiente para el proximo dia :). Ademas, hay un museo camboyano, en memoria de las victimas que murieron durante la guerra y otras partes del parque que nos quedaron por visitar.
Another part of the neighborhood is mostly Korean. There are a lot of health centers, eyes centers, farmacies and other Oriental clinics.
Close to the neighborhood there is a Swedish community, yeah, Swedish!! :) there is a Swedish restaurant, a Swedish shop, a Swedish park, etc. We didn't have time visit everything so we'll go back there next time :). There is also a Cambodian museum dedicated to the victims of the war. We'll go back there to visit the Cambodian memorial and other parts of the park.
Para comer elegimos un restaurante estilo persa ;), muy barato, muy bonito y muy rico. Aqui veis las fotos del restaurante y de lo que pedimos: hummus, dolmeh y kebab :). Despues compramos baklawa en la panaderia libanesa, que rico!! Para terminar paseamos por Lake Shore Park antes de volver a casa. Un dia perfecto!!
We chose a Persian restaurant for luch :) cheap, nice and delicious. Here you see the pictures of the restaurant and the food we orderd: hummus, dolmeh and kebab :)
After lunch we bought baklawa in the Lebanese restaurant, delicious!! To finish the day we went for a walk in Lake Shore Park. It was a perfect day!!

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Insanity

Hola!! Algunos de vosotros me habeis oido hablar recientemente del nuevo programa de entrenamiento que estamos haciendo Thomas y yo, se llama "Insanity" y la verdad es que hace honor a su nombre.
Hacia tiempo que no me motivaba tanto haciendo deporte, al menos desde que deje de hacer "cardiocore" en Holanda.
Hola!! Many of you have already heard me talking about the new training program Thomas and I are following "Insanity". To be honest, the name is perfect.
It was very long since I didn't feel so motivated with sports, at least since I stopped doing "cardiocore" in Holland.
En America lo conoce mucha gente y me imagino que en otros paises y tambien en España habra programas parecidos. Abajo podeis ver el enlace.
El programa tiene DVDs con distintos entrenamientos. Dura 60 dias y tiene dos etapas diferentes. Una serie de entrenamientos el primer mes y otros mas duros y profundos el segundo.
This program is very famous in America and I guess there are similar things in other countries and in Spain. You can find the link below.
The package has several DVDs with different trainings. The whole training takes 60 days and it has two different parts. One for the first month and an even harder and deeper part in the second month.
El entrenamiento se basa en cardio casi todo el tiempo y tambien en el equilibrio para fortalecer todo el tronco y mejorar la potencia y fuerza de los musculos.
Junto con los DVDs tambien viene un plan de alimentacion. Es una dieta para seguir el entrenamiento y aunque lo mas seguro es que uno adelgace haciendo el entrenamiento, la dieta no es para perder peso. La dieta se basa en comer 5 veces al dia para mantener los niveles de azucar en la sangre constantes y ademas, acelerar el metabolismo. Asi que ahora, nos vamos a trabajar con 3 comidas en la bolsa! en casa hacemos el desayuno y la cena.
The training is based on cardio exercises, cardiocore and balance and also power exercises. Together with the DVDs there is also a nutrition plan special for the training. Most people loose weight while doing the training, but the diet is not meant for loosing weight. It is based on eating 5 times a day, around 300 kcal per meal and it helps you keep the sugar levels in blood constant and also, accelerating your metabolism. Now we go to work with 3 different meals in our bag :) then we do breakfast and dinner at home.


http://www.beachbody.com/product/fitness_programs/insanity.do?gclid=CMPMxfqP0qcCFUa8KgodRzWt_g&code=SEMB_GOOGLE_SAN&extcmp=66367740&ef_id=TLJdQgqoEEMAADizyVsAADUq:20110316031823:s

Habiamos oido que los entrenamientos eran muy duros, pero no lo supimos realmente hasta que comenzamos con el ejercicio, hace unas tres semanas. Estas son la sesiones de ejercicio mas duras que he hecho nunca. El cardiocore era bastante duro, pero solo una vez a la semana. Eso es 6 veces por semana y uno de descanso. Todos los dias es super duro y uno de los dias es para recuperar, con un entrenamiento un poco mas "relajado". Creedme, despues de 10-11 horas de trabajo esto ya es la muerte :)
We had heard how hard the training was, but we really knew it once we started following the program around 3 weeks ago. This is the hardest training I've ever done! Cardiocore lessons were pretty hard too, but only once a week. This is 6 times a week and one day for resting. It is very hard and one of the trainings is dedicated for recovery with more "relaxed" exercises. After 10-11 hours of work in the lab this is really insane ;)
Aqui podeis ver algunos videos del DVD de hoy "Cardio power and resistance", ha sido bastante duro, aunque en realidad de los que llevamos hasta ahora no se cual es peor...creo que el de "Pure cardio".
Las sesiones se basan en periodos de 3-4 minutos sin parar y 30 segundos de descanso. La sesion completa dura entre 40 minutos y una hora. El calentamiento ya es horrible y la primera semana no nos podiamos mover de las agujetas que teniamos.
Here you can see some movies of the DVD we had to follow today "Cardio power and resistance". It was very hard, but to be honest I don't know which one is the worst...I think the one called "Pure cardio".
The trainings are based on periods of 3-4 minutes of exercise and 30 seconds for resting. The whole thing takes from 40 mins to 1 hour. The warming up is already hard and the first week we had an incredible muscle pain.



Thomas and I during one of the exercises. Thomas y yo haciendo uno de los ejercicios :)



Otro de los ejercicios. Another exercise.

La verdad es que estamos muy contentos con el ejercicio y muy motivados. En tres semanas ya hemos observado resultados :) y nos sentimos muy bien, hacer ejercicio es de lo mejorcito!! Os seguire informando y os pondre las fotos del antes y el despues, jeje!!
De momento aqui hay algunas fotos de nuestras caras sudorosas mientras entrenamos.
Insanity, os lo recomiendo!! :)
The truth is that we are very happy with this exercise and very motivated. We have already observed results in these three weeks :) and we feel very well, light and healthy. I love sports!! I'll keep you posted and I'll show you the before and after pictures, hehe!!
In the mean time you can see some pics of our sweaty faces while training :)
Insanity!!! I recommend it. As Shaun T says "dig deeper"!!!!!!!

Thomasito training in our living room. Thomasito haciendo ejercicio en nuestro salon.

La cara de Thomas despues del calentamiento. Thomas' face after the warming up.

Mi cara al terminar el entrenamiento...My face after the workout...

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Ash Wednesday. Miercoles de ceniza

Hola! Hoy ha sido miercoles de ceniza y segun la tradicion catolica, el comienzo de la cuaresma. En España la gente creyente comienza hoy este periodo yendo a la iglesia a que el sacerdote le ponga la ceniza en la cabeza.
Recuerdo perfectamente haber ido de pequeña al menos dos veces a la iglesia para cumplir con el ritual. El sacerdote esparce en la cabeza de cada uno, cerca de la frente, un puñadito de ceniza diciendo las palabras: "polvo eres y en polvo te convertiras". Sin embargo, esta ceniza no se ve, se te cae al poco tiempo y nunca es visible para el publico.
Hi! Today is ash Wednesday and according to the catholic tradition, it is the beginning of lent. Spanish Catholic people, who practice the religion and go to church regularly, are supposed to go to church today and the priest spreads ash on their heads.
I remember going a couple of times when I was small. The priest spreads the ash while he says: "you are ash and you will become ash" (don't know the literal translation). However, the ash is not visible and it flies after a couple of minutes.
Junto con esta tradicion, no se debe comer carne este dia ni tampoco los viernes hasta el Viernes Santo. Se debe practicar la abstinencia en todos los sentidos :)
Hoy aqui me he sorprendido. Hasta el momento no habia conocido a mucha gente catolica, si a una mayoria judia, hasta que hoy he empezado a ver a gente con una cruz grande en la frente.
Together with the ash ritual, people are not supposed to eat meat this day or on Friday until Easter Friday. In theory people should not do anything excessive, sexual, etc.
Until the moment I hadn't met a lot of Catholic people, most of them are Jewish, but today I was surprised when I saw many people with a big cross painted on their foreheads.


La cruz es totalmente visible y oscura, asi que aunque he reconocido perfectamente de que se trataba, me ha parecido exagerado. Sin embargo, cada persona esta en su total de derecho de expresar o no sus creencias religiosas, opiniones e ideas siempre respetando a los demas. Pero puesto que este es un blog para relatar las experiencias que vivo en USA dia a dia, hoy tenia que contar esto. Me ha sorprendido y eso es lo que puedo decir.
Si alguien quiere pronunciarse al respecto, el debate esta abierto!
The cross is totally visible and dark. I immediately knew why they had the cross, but I thought it was exaggerated. However, everyone is free to do and express their religions, opinions and ideas always with respect. But I started this blog to talk about the experiences I'm living in the US day by day and today I wanted to talk about this. I was surprised and that's everything I can say. If anyone wants to say something about it, debate is open!

Monday, March 7, 2011

The Civic Opera House.

Hace exactamente dos semanas fuimos a la opera. Hacia tiempo que habiamos hablado sobre ello y desde que hicimos el tour por el rio Chicago y vimos el grandioso edificio, supe que queria ir al menos una vez a ver una opera. La verdad es que fue mi regalo de Navidad para Thomas, pero con entrada incluida para mi.
Las entradas estaban agotadas para varias de las operas que habia, unas dos obras distintas por mes. Mi idea era ir a ver "Carmen" en Abril, pero las entradas estaban agotadisimas y lo unico que pude encontrar disponible, con una buena entrada (el precio esta por las nubes) fue para febrero "Lohengrin" de Wagner.
Aqui os dejo el link para que veais la historia, el elenco de personajes, etc.
Two weeks ago we went to the opera. We had talked about it many times and since we did the tour along the Chicago river and I saw the building of the Civic Opera House, I knew I wanted to go there at least once. The truth is that it was my Christmas present for Thomas with an extra ticket for me :)
It is not easy to get tickets since they are sold out many months in advance. There are around two plays per month and my idea was going to "Carmen" in April, but the tickets were sold out of course. I looked for something available with good seats (it is pretty expensive) and I found it for February. It was "Lohengrin" by Wagner.
Here I show you the link for the play, the cast, story, characters, etc.

http://www.lyricopera.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=9818

Nuestros asientos estaban en el primer balcon y se veia el escenario estupendamente. El sonido era muy bueno y sinceramente creo que eran mejores asientos que en la planta baja en la parte trasera.
Our seats were on the first balcony and our view was great. The sound was also excellent and to be honest, I believe we had better seats than the ones downstairs at the back, even though they were more expensive.




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La historia me gusto, al igual que los personajes y la musica. He de decir que la orquesta era de primera :). La opera duro cuatro horas y media, con dos descansos de media hora incluidos.
Habia gente joven, pero dominaba la tercera edad, jeje!! Tambien habia algunas personas estiradas que parecian adineradas y que miraban por encima del hombro en plan "que hacen estos aqui?", pero bueno, yo iba a lo mio. Tambien habia mucha gente que creia que vestia de modo muy estiloso, pero yo les daba una buena leccion de como vestir. Esta parte fue bastante entretenida y de hecho, estoy pensando muy seriamente el dedicar un texto a los modelos que vi aquella noche...
I liked the story, the characters and the music. The orchestra was outstanding and it took four hours, including two breaks of half an hour.
There were young people, but the "golden generation" people were the majority, haha! There were also kind of rich people who looked at us with a face of "what the hell are they doing here?" but I didn't pay any attention. There were also people who believed they were stylish, but I'd like to teach them something about what to wear. This was something pretty entertaining and I'm seriously thinking of writing a post about all the dresses and awful clothes I saw that day...
Lo mas importante fue la obra, las voces, la musica tan poderosa estilo Wagneriano, nada melodico, pero si muy potente y naturalmente, la puesta en escena, con mas de 100 personas sobre el escenario mas la grandisima orquesta. Bastante impresionante.
Mis personajes favoritos fueron "los malos", en este caso Ortrud y Telramund. Ademas, la obra se desarrollaba en Brabant, si señor, de donde viene Thomasito y estaba escrita en aleman, por lo que pudimos entender la mayoria de la letra (aunque habia una pantalla con subtitulos).
The most important things were the play itself, the voices, the powerful music, pure Wagnerian style, not melodic but very strong and of course, the acting with more than 100 people on the stage together with the big orchestra. Pretty impressive.
My favorite characters were the "bad guys", Ortrud and Telramund. Moreover, the play takes place in Brabant, yes!! where Thomas comes from and it was written in German, so we could understand the lyrics easily, even though there were English subtitles.
Para concluir, decir que la experiencia fue positiva, lo pasamos bien, fue cultural, interesante y unico. Esto ultimo porque no creo que pueda comprar entradas muy a menudo, jeje! Al menos, merecio la pena :)

In conclusion I have to say that it was again a positive experience, we had a lot of fun, it was very cultural an unique experience. I say unique because I don't think I can buy tickets very often, haha! At least, it worth it!! :)

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