Matadepera Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

For Christmas lunch, I returned to my grandmother's house in Matadepera. My whole family came so we were quite the crowd. The fun part came right before the food when my younger cousins went to hit the tio. The tio is a log that has a face painted or pasted onto it. Then the parents put a blanket on its behind and usually a barrati (sp?) which is the traditional Catalan hat. The kids then go to the fire or the stove to heat up the sticks and sing a Christmas carol to the adults. When the stic…

I went to see the Mathematical conference and some friends of my family. We visited Madrid, Alcala, and Guadalajara.

After the Berbena my father had a choir practice in the morning. For a concert on the 6th of July which I will play the violin for one of the songs. We made the trip down so that I could meet the guy who wrote the score for the peice, but he ended up not showing up. I listened to the choir warm up in the church of Matadepera where the concert is to be held. Then I called my grandmother to come pick me up. Every Sunday all my aunts and uncles on my fathers side of the family eat lunch to…

Went to visit my family. Barcelona, Terrassa, Matadepera