COOKING FANTASTIC!

WHAT’S ON TONIGHT?

There are four venues open tonight, including what amounts to a fascinating experiment in the use of the castle grounds. Plus there’s a musical parade through the streets and, naturally, great music to wrap yourself in. Click on the picture to enlarge and find out all about it on the Festival Website. Have you visited it yet?

FESTIVAL FIRST NIGHT

The International Music Festival got off to a very good start. The inauguration ceremony at the Reina Sofía Cultural Centre was followed by a concert by Trio Satz. As that was ending, Dorantes and his group were warming up at Llano de la Victoria. An error in the printed programme caused a little panic among the organizers: the flamenco/jazz fusion was about to start but the seats were almost empty. Very soon, though, the audience filtered in to fill that lovely venue and all was well again. To see more picts and notes

LAST MINUTE PREPS AT OUR FESTIVAL

As always happens with these events, preparations went on up to the last minute and sometimes beyond. Just so you know, TioJimeno and JimenaPulse have decided to pool our photographs of the Festival to avoid repetition and unnecessary double coverage of a performance. Below is a selection of some of them, only TioJimeno hasn’t got up yet so we can only show you ours… (We’ll soon get around to putting them up in slides)

ÓPTICA REGUEIRA

What can’t you find here?

SATURDAY PONY CLUB

CARNICERÍA DOMINGO

Here’s the meat!

FESIVAL COUNTDOWN

We’re a couple of hours away from the Festival inaugural hoo-hah. It would be a waste of time for us to put up today’s programme here when you can check it easily on the Festival Website in English. But we did anyway - click on the picture. A note to our readers: Given that Prospero has somehow nosed his way onto the Festival committee, that he has a new-and-gratefully-received camera and that he has a commitment to you, he is likely to be pretty absorbed by the event over the next few days. If you have any news you think we all need to know about, please feel free to write in via our e-mail, which you will find at ‘Contact Us’, at the top of the right sidebar.

FESTIVAL POSTER COLLECTION

Bar-Restaurante La Tasca has, we believe, the only complete collection of framed festival posters, displayed on the dining room wall (click picture to enlarge). It is worth seeing how the festival has developed over the years. And try a tapa of Victoria’s great tortilla de patatas while you’re there…

LA CUADRA

Where eating is a real pleasure