I feel it in my bones!

Yesterday Madrid´s people went to Cibeles to break the “most number of people forming a mosaic” record. This is part of Madrid´s efforts for being the Olympian City in 2016.

There were hundreds of thousand people around Cibeles with color cards, with joy and hope at their faces. Telemadrid was in charge of the program and cheering, also broadcasting in live. They did a great job.



At the end, a David Bisbal free entrance concert. Curro and I went to look around and to take pics from different places.









As negative points, on one side, I really think it was a bad idea to cover Cibeles as far as this is one of Madrid symbols internationally, so I think actually would be better to give it more relevance indeed. And a bad experience I had: we were trying to going trough but there were 2 ladies blocking the natural place to go through, so, we should move them to. We stop to take some pics before and when we were ready I kindly asked one of them “can you please let us to go through?” And she answered angry “no! We are fed up of this!” :( I hope this won´t be the sportsmanship the Olympic people will receive! :/ (Curro took care of the situation and we went through without asking… Spanish style?). ;)





Around Cibeles there were some encounter points were people could take souvenir pics (as the one at the beginning of this post) or paint their hands with the emblematic colors.



We saw the reserved place for the reporters that had cover the event… They were enjoying a lot at the concert, even dancing a bit! :)





We also saw a journalist improvising a space at the street to send up rapidly his notes and pics of the event.


Well, maybe Madrid chances for being the Olympian City in 2016 are not realistic (as far in 2012 it will be London and it supposed not to be 2 cities of the same continent one after the other), but… it´s nice to see how people support and participate at this kind of initiatives! :)