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Man Ki Lee Diary Entries 15th May, 2007 Today my group came to the capital of Spain – Madrid. We heard this is the best time to travel in Madrid because the weather is great and here will be a festival we all long to see and it is called Festas de San Isidro. It is the liveliest popular festivities in Madrid. First, we came to the famous Romer (pilgrimage) to the saint’s meadow to drink from the miracle water at the fountain of the hermitage. It is the tradition in Spain for the ones come to the festival. The view is awesome. I pray next to Romer hope that we will have a lot of fun in this trip. We saw people wearing Castizo, the traditional dress in Spain. We bought some Barquillos (rolled wafers), buelos (fritters) and rosquillas (doughnuts) to try. When we were buying them I got my digital dictionary out and translate simple words into sentences to show the salesperson and we use our fingers to point out how many we want. After that, we saw the famous Feria Taurina (bullfighting fair). I saw a lot of bulls chasing around. The place was crowned. I brought some traditional decorations for memories.