Sunday 8 July 2012

Spain Vs Italy in Rota

On our last night in Rota the Spain Vs Italy Euro Football final was on so we of course went out to see it.  We have been in places before where a game was won like near Marseille when they won the French league in 2010 and heard all the celebrations (and we were in Italy when they were booted out of the World cup in 2010 what a sombre place that was!) 
What an atmosphere was in town, every little square had crowds sitting outside cafes and bars who had put TV’s or big screens outside for the occasion.  There were all ages from the very young to the very old, men and women basically the whole town  I think!  The only trouble we had was finding somewhere to watch it as we were a little late getting there.  We ended up back in our favourite sherry bar for the match as then the girls could get a bite to eat too.  Kaylee had on her early birthday present which was a Spanish football outfit and she loved it being a little show off all the attention she got.....
Abarnyway as you know Spain won four nil!  The town went crazy, everyone poured out intot he squares and cars were going around with huge Spanish flags hanging out of the windows and blowing their horns and everyone was very very happy.  We went home soon after (well after a couple of celebratory sherries) but the celebrations carried on well into the night as you could hear from the marina.  I went up into town the next morning before we left to post some letters and the town workers had cleaned up everything already and you would never know how packed the place had been the night before!






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