Murcia

A couple of days ago we went on an outing to Murcia with some of the people from the church we attend in Torrevieja. The idea of the trip was to see some of the nativity scenes put on by the local churches. Our "tour guide" was the pastor, Rafael, who has lived in Murcia for many years so we received an expert tour of the city.

The nativity scenes were worth seeing,















as were the Christmas lights,























but the highlight of the trip was a visit to the Plaza Belluga, a massive square in the centre of the city.

For five evenings around Christmas they have performances from professional opera singers. Each performance is quite short, just three or four minutes, and they were all well-known "songs" (if that's what you call them - I'm not much of an opera expert!). The acoustics are amazing and to add to the effect they use the walls of the buildings around the square to project moving images.

I've put together a few pictures and video clips of the evening - as always they don't really do it justice but hopefully you can get a feel of the delight we had watching and listening to these performances in the open air with thousands of others.



There's nothing like a nice bit of culture every now and then!