Botellon

This is where we went next: it is called the "Botellon" which I think simply means "bottle" because it is a place that has been designated as a legal outdoor drinking zone. In the rest of the city drinking on the street is officially forbidden and you can get a steep fine if caught, so many people come to the botellon to hang out and drink on the streets. It is conveniently located at the edge of the city behind a huge supermarket so it does not bother residents too much, but still very close to the main bar street. On this particular night there were more people than ever, I took these pictures standing more or less in the the middle of the crowd and there must have been thousands of students. It was pretty late when I arrived at around 2 o'clock (not late for Spaniards) and in a couple of hours everyone and everything was smashed and the ground covered in a cocktail of all kinds of alcohol known to man mixed with other liquids,