Annabel’s boyfriend, Roger, takes part in this common activity in Barcelona of building human castles. Many of the neighborhoods in Barcelona practice several times per week, and there is a competition every other year with costumes and music. It is a really nice activity to bring a neighborhood together because you need people of all sizes and abilities to build the castle-you need big strong guys on the bottom, limber lighter people to climb up, and a very small girl with good balance and no fear to climb up to the top, raise one hand above her head to signal that the tower is stable and finished.
Japanese family moved to the neighborhood only a few months prior and the whole family is involved in the castillos, with the little 4 year old girl climbing to the top. The kids are all playing around with the other Spanish kids and adults, it was really cool to see a community building activity like this in action.
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