Last month one of Spain’s most famous local fiestas, took place. Not the one with bulls, the other one with tomatoes, La Tomatina. This year, for the first time, the organizers charged non-local residents to take part in the festival. Not a lot, just 10 Euros, which is the same as probably most discos and also it seems to be a lot more fun! Most of the buyers of the tickets where foreign such as from Australia, Japan, Britain and the USA.

This story was reported in the Telegraph

Obviously, Spain is going through some slightly difficult financial times, so it’s difficult to pay for these things, but do you think that this will be the first of many? Will people have to pay for other fiestas such as in Pamplona?

We’d love to hear peoples opinions

Wow, that’s a lot of tomatoes!

By Siôn
(An English Teacher at Optima)