Jueves, 04 de marzo:
Tras haber dormido en Barcelona la noche anterior, sobre las 12 del mediodía cogimos el AVE hacia Zaragoza. La verdad es que viajar en AVE es una gozada, super cómodo, silencioso y, evidentemente, rápido. Tuvimos suerte con el tiempo y hacía sol, por lo que pudimos disfrutar de la vista por la ventana de muchos diferentes paisajes de España a lo largo del viaje.
Al cabo de un tiempo nos pusieron la película "Diario de una compradora compulsiva" para ver en el tren. La película no es gran cosa, como cabía esperar, pero era perfecta para unas horas de viaje en tren - desconectas el cerebro, miras, y dejas que pase el tiempo. No pudimos terminar de verla porque tuvimos que hacer trasbordo en Zaragoza (el AVE seguía, claro) al Talgo que nos llevaría a Valladolid. Bueno, ya nos podíamos imaginas el final de la peli, no fue muy grave. :P
El trayecto en AVE duró sólo una hora y media más o menos, nada comparado con el siguiente tramo, que duró unas 4 horas.
Despues de que arrancara el Talgo hacia Valladolid lo primero fue comer algo, que habíamos traído rollitos de pizza que preparé yo y que son muy prácticos para comer de camino porque no manchan nada, y nada, seguimos viendo paisajes (aunque en el Talgo nos tocaron sitios en la pared donde no hay ventana... pero bueno, apartando la cortina se podía ver por la de delante), luego nos pusieron la película "París París", que no estaba mal, pero francamente era demasiado lenta y... se podría decir que demasiado inteligente, para ver en un trayecto tan largo y cansado de tren, y se hizo un poco pesada.
Y poco más hay que contar del viaje, finalmente sobre las 18 horas llegamos a Valladolid, donde en la estación ya nos estaba esperando Ramón Varela, amigo por Messenger de Marc y uno de los miembros de ASOFED (ASOFED siendo la asociación que montó casi todo el salón). Cogimos un taxi que nos llevó al hotel para descansar un rato. Quedamos en vernos más tarde para la inauguración de las Asociaciones del salón.
El hotel era genial, de 4 estrellas, muy acogedor y agradable, y en pleno centro, así que estaba cerca de, bueno, de todo. Nos instalamos allí, y al cabo de un ratito nos vino a buscar otra vez Ramón, para ir todos juntos al restaurante Camarín de San Martín donde habíamos quedado con toda la gente que participaba en la organización del salón.
Allí por fin conocimos a Carlos Ramínez y a su mujer Mónica Martínez, los principales organizadores del Salón y presidente y tesorera de ASOFED.
También estaban Jeremi Pirot, Lidia Fernández (trabajó, entre otras muchas cosas, en storyboards de Planet 51), Matías (profesor de sideño gráfico en la Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes (UEMC)), Cristian, Rut, Jacobo y muchísima gente más de los que desgraciadamente no pude recordar todos los nombres, pero que pertenecían a las asociaciones juveniles que ayudaron a organizar el salón y tendrían stands allí.
Todo el mundo era majísimo, Mónica inmediatamente nos atendió y nos trajo algo para beber, todo el mundo parecía muy interesado en conocernos... daba un poco de corte, la verdad, ¡nos trataban como a estrellas! Y eso que somos prácticamente del todo desconocidos en el mundo del cómic...
Al cabo de un rato Carlos y los presidentes de las asociaciones dirigieron unas palabras a los demás presentes, y nos pidió que nosotros también dirigieramos algunas palabras al público... ¡Dios mio, qué vergüenza!
Afortunadamente a Marc se le da muy bien improvisar (a contrario que a mí) y consiguió que quedaramos bien y todo, y yo poco tuve que añadir despues de eso. ;)
Marc y yo (pero sobre todo Marc) "dirigiéndo algunas palabras a los presentes".Podeis ver el video de la inauguración aquí, pero no os riáis de nosotros, ¿eh?
Despues trajeron un montón de cosillas para picar - empanadillas, croquetas, tortilla de patata, embutidos... total, que comimos bastante y muy rico, y creíamos que eso era la cena, pero... ¡no!
Sobre las 11 de la noche nos despedimos de todo el mundo que estaba allí, todos los dibujantes presentes hicimos un dibujo en el libro de visitas del restaurante, y despues nos fuimos Carlos, Monica, Ramón y Marc y yo a cenar a un restaurante chino que conocían. Ellos eran amigos del dueño, un chino conocido sólo como Miguel (según él es lo que equivaldría a su nombre original en Chino), todo un personaje, aficionado al Real Madrid por lo que nos contaron.
Firmándo el libro de visitas.Era muy simpático y nos sirvió comida encantado a pesar de que fuera tan tarde. Cenamos bien, y mucho, y finalmente sobre la 1 de la madrugada nos despedimos de Carlos y Mónica, Ramón nos acompañó de vuelta al hotel (estaba a 5 minutos), y ya nos fuimos rendidos a dormir.
Al día siguiente tendríamos que dar una charla cada uno en la UEMC, y estábamos algo nerviosos.
Revisándo mis notas para la charla de mañana... Qué nervios (aunque en la foto no lo parezca)!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Well, here goes the first part of my record of the trip to the comic con at Valladolid. Let's go day by day.
Thursday, march 4th:
Thursday, march 4th:
After having slept in Barcelona the night before, at about 12 am we took the AVE (which is, at the moment, Spain's fastest hight-speed train) to Zaragoza.
Travelling with the AVE is really cool, very comfortable, silent and, obviously, fast. We were lucky with the weather ant it was sunny, so we could enjoy the view from the window of many different landscapes of Spain throughout the jorney.
After a while they showed the movie "Confessions of a Shopaholic" to watch in the train. The movie's no big deal as was to be expected, but it was perfect for a couple of hours during a train trip - you turn off your brain, watch, and let the time pass. We couldn't finish watching it because we had to change trains in Zaragoza (the AVE would go on, of course) to the Talgo (another high speed train, but older and slower) which would take us to Valladolid. Well, we could already imagine how the movie would end, so that wasn't much of a problem. :P
The trip with the AVE only took about 1 1/2 hours, nothing compared to the next part of the journey, which took us like, 4 hours.
After the Talgo left for Valladolid the first thing was to eat something - we had brought pizza "rolls" I'd prepared and which are really great to bring along on a trip because there's nothing to spill. And well, we continued seeing landscapes (though in the Talgo we got seats at the wall where there's no window... still, you could look through the window in front of us when we pushed the curtain aside), then they showed the movie "Paris Paris", which was not bad, but honestly too slow and... you could say too smart a movie to watch during such a long and tiring trip, so it was rather dull.
And that's about all there's to say about the train journey. Finally at about 18 pm we arrivet at Valladolid, where at the station Ramón Varela, friend of Marc via the internet and one of ASOFED's people (ASOFED being the association who organized almost everything for the con), was already waiting for us. We took a cab to the hotel where we could rest a little. We agreed to meet later for the association's presentation of the convention.
The hotel was awesome (it had 4 stars) and was very inviting and nice, and in the center of the city, so it was close to, well, everything. We left our things there, and after a while Ramón came to pick us up again so we could go all together to the restaurant Camarín de San Martín, where we were to meet the people who helped organize the convention.
There we finally met Carlos Ramírez and his wife Monica Martínez, the main organizers of the convention and president and treasurer of ASOFED. There was also Jeremi Pirot, Lidia Fernández (who worked, among other things, on storyboards for Planet 51), Matías (teacher for graphic design at the European University Miguel de Cervantes (UEMC)), Cristian, Rut, Jacobo, and more people whose names I unfortunatley can't remember all, but who mainly belonged to the youth associations involved in the convention and who'd have stands there.
Everybody was wonderful, Mónica immediately received us and brought us something to drink, everyone seemd interested in meeting us... it was almost a bit scary really, we were being treated like stars! And that even though we're almost completely unknown in the comic world...
After a while Carlos and the presidents of the other associations wanted to say a few words to inaugurate the convention towards the rest of the people there, and he asked us to say a few words, too... I felt so awkward!
Luckily Marc is really good at improvising (unlike me) and managed to make us even look good and everything, and I didn't have to say much more after that. ;)
Travelling with the AVE is really cool, very comfortable, silent and, obviously, fast. We were lucky with the weather ant it was sunny, so we could enjoy the view from the window of many different landscapes of Spain throughout the jorney.
After a while they showed the movie "Confessions of a Shopaholic" to watch in the train. The movie's no big deal as was to be expected, but it was perfect for a couple of hours during a train trip - you turn off your brain, watch, and let the time pass. We couldn't finish watching it because we had to change trains in Zaragoza (the AVE would go on, of course) to the Talgo (another high speed train, but older and slower) which would take us to Valladolid. Well, we could already imagine how the movie would end, so that wasn't much of a problem. :P
The trip with the AVE only took about 1 1/2 hours, nothing compared to the next part of the journey, which took us like, 4 hours.
After the Talgo left for Valladolid the first thing was to eat something - we had brought pizza "rolls" I'd prepared and which are really great to bring along on a trip because there's nothing to spill. And well, we continued seeing landscapes (though in the Talgo we got seats at the wall where there's no window... still, you could look through the window in front of us when we pushed the curtain aside), then they showed the movie "Paris Paris", which was not bad, but honestly too slow and... you could say too smart a movie to watch during such a long and tiring trip, so it was rather dull.
And that's about all there's to say about the train journey. Finally at about 18 pm we arrivet at Valladolid, where at the station Ramón Varela, friend of Marc via the internet and one of ASOFED's people (ASOFED being the association who organized almost everything for the con), was already waiting for us. We took a cab to the hotel where we could rest a little. We agreed to meet later for the association's presentation of the convention.
The hotel was awesome (it had 4 stars) and was very inviting and nice, and in the center of the city, so it was close to, well, everything. We left our things there, and after a while Ramón came to pick us up again so we could go all together to the restaurant Camarín de San Martín, where we were to meet the people who helped organize the convention.
There we finally met Carlos Ramírez and his wife Monica Martínez, the main organizers of the convention and president and treasurer of ASOFED. There was also Jeremi Pirot, Lidia Fernández (who worked, among other things, on storyboards for Planet 51), Matías (teacher for graphic design at the European University Miguel de Cervantes (UEMC)), Cristian, Rut, Jacobo, and more people whose names I unfortunatley can't remember all, but who mainly belonged to the youth associations involved in the convention and who'd have stands there.
Everybody was wonderful, Mónica immediately received us and brought us something to drink, everyone seemd interested in meeting us... it was almost a bit scary really, we were being treated like stars! And that even though we're almost completely unknown in the comic world...
After a while Carlos and the presidents of the other associations wanted to say a few words to inaugurate the convention towards the rest of the people there, and he asked us to say a few words, too... I felt so awkward!
Luckily Marc is really good at improvising (unlike me) and managed to make us even look good and everything, and I didn't have to say much more after that. ;)
Marc and I (but above all Marc) "saying a few words to the attendees".You can watch the video of the presentation here, but don't you dare laugh at us, eh!
After that a lot of tapas and stuff to eat were brought in - pastries, croquettes, potato tortilla, sausages... anyway, we ate a lot and really well, and we thought that was our dinner already, but.. it wasn't!
At around 11 pm we said goodbye to the people at the restaurant, all the artists who were there made a drawing in the restaurant's guest book, and after that Carlos, Mónica, Ramón and us left to have dinner at a Chinese restaurant they knew. They were friends of the owner, a Chinese known only as Miguel (according to himself, that's what would correspond to his original name in Chinese), a really interesting person and fan of the Real Madrid according to what we were told.
After that a lot of tapas and stuff to eat were brought in - pastries, croquettes, potato tortilla, sausages... anyway, we ate a lot and really well, and we thought that was our dinner already, but.. it wasn't!
At around 11 pm we said goodbye to the people at the restaurant, all the artists who were there made a drawing in the restaurant's guest book, and after that Carlos, Mónica, Ramón and us left to have dinner at a Chinese restaurant they knew. They were friends of the owner, a Chinese known only as Miguel (according to himself, that's what would correspond to his original name in Chinese), a really interesting person and fan of the Real Madrid according to what we were told.
Signing the guest book.He was very nice and happily brought us food despite the late hour it was. We ate well, and a lot, and finally at about 1 am we said goodbye to Carlos and Mónica, Ramón took us back to the hotel (it was only 5 minutes away), and very tired but happy, we went to bed.
The next day both of us would have to do a talk at the UEMC, and we were a little nervous.
The next day both of us would have to do a talk at the UEMC, and we were a little nervous.
Revising my notes for the master class tomorrow... Gee, I was nervous (even though it doesn't look like it on the picture)!
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