Snow is already here!!

It had already been snowing during this last weak, but very slightly. But yesterday was finally everything white. Well, I really love snow, it's something I always link with my childhood, but last year it was like this for almost four months, and that's maybe too much...

Anyways, December is a nice month to have some snow. The streets have plenty of Christmas markets, giving a nice atmosphere to the city. They have been opened this weekend, so perfect timing in that sense!

We'll see how this Winter is, but since you always have to think of the positive side, here I have my first "Winter picture" from this year, just taken from my home!

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows

I watched yesterday the last part, or rather "half of the last part", of the series of Harry Potter, "Harry Potter and the deathly hallows". I watched it in English, the original version, which is much easier to me than the German version. Maybe at Christmas I will watch the Spanish version, we'll see.

The film is pretty different from the previous ones, as the last book is. This "year" Harry Potter and his friends are not attending the courses at Hogwarts anymore. The situation has worsen and Volvemort has retaken his powers and the control of the situation, and Harry and his friends must stay hiden to avoid him, while searching the Horcruxes... I don't tell anymore...

The film is pretty dark now, no more "childish" stories, naive situations and so on. The story has become "adult", and the children have taken a very different role. Death and relationships are now important. The atmosphere is dark, the landscapes and nice and well filmed, and like in the book, the story is good. I never liked very much the actors, but they do it a little bit better in here (they are getting much older than their own characters).


The film is about 150 minutes long, but it really doesn't seem that long. And this is the worst, when it finishes, even having read the books, knowing the end and that it was just "half" of the story, you really feel disappointed! Do I have to wait now for another year?? Well, I guess it was necessary for such a long and complex story... but also in order to earn twice the money of a single long film!

Anyways, from my point of view, the film is worth watching, specially if you have read the books, I highly recommend it. And Now, well, just one more year for the final "half" part!!

Trip Teruel/Soria

I was visiting for some days two of the most "in-the-middle-of-nowhere" places in Spain. The regions of Teruel and Soria. I know it's not the most usual place to visit, but this makes it also nice. Plenty of small and very little known villages and towns seem to be spred all around these areas. These two provinces are likely those with the least inhabitants, and the landscape shows clearly that very few people live and move around there.

However, the visit is worth. Several small villages show quiet clearly how life used to be, not so much time ago. Travelling was difficult, and the orography was determinant for people life. History is anyways very present in these places, as they were all ancient borders between the Christian and Muslim Spain. Some little and so far unknown villages take the name "del Cid", for instance. Castles are everywhere, very small but ancient churches, together with huge and very historical cathedrals that don't "fit" with the present towns (Burgo de Osma has a cathedral that many, many big cities don't!!)

Gastronomy is also worth. In Southern Aragon the traditional desserts, with strong arab influence, are really great. Meanwhile, in Castilla, a region with plenty of sheep everywhere, lamb is extraordinary. A visit to any of these places must have also this "culinary" contribution.

As conclusion, places that maybe are hard to live in, very isolated, not good weather condition and very little population, but really worth to visit for some days!!