If you ever come to Spain around these days, this is how serious things are done here:

• The night from 24^th to 25^th December: a family dinner and a Christmas meal. Usually no party out of home, but more and more people are receiving presents around this night.
• The night from 31 december to January 1^st: family or party out dinner, new year’s meal with your family. Midnight is the central moment. No gifts.
• The night from january 5th to january 6th: according to tradition, the Kings (the Maggi from the bible) bring the gifts. No special dinner, gifts are unwrapped on January the 6^th morning, and a family meal is usually associated. Even if some call for the end of monarchy in Spain, when it comes to gifts the Kings are still overwhelming (even if Santa, known here as “Papa Noel” as a derivation of its French name, is gaining ground…). The moment Angela Merkel knows some Spaniards receive two gifts, our sovereign debt spread will surely skyrocket…

Here you can see some images from yerterday’s afternoon in La Coruña, in Galicia (northwest Spain). People flocked to the streets, taking kids to see the King’s parade, or looking for a last chance to buy a present. Looking for a vantage point over the King’s parade we climbed to the Fundación Abanca and found an exhibition about the works of Isaac Díaz Pardo, quite interesting and beyond what I already knew due to the Sargadelos china; a rewarding intellectual gift.

An unexpected image of yours sincerely with bottles portraying a wedding