Easter in Seville...Cordoba and the seaside....

 Easter 2021....Seville...Cordoba....and more

Are we ready for take off....

....after a bacon sandwich and a coffee...im ready for anything...but mostly...pizza!

Seville...the sunny capital of Spain...if you want hot....this is the place to go in the summer....at Easter its fabulous....and the amazing Semana Santa religious festival....

Dont worry, ive not got God....mind you...saying that.....

The Olds continue to think its great if they pose me in front of Jes....very amusing....

Though there were some great Cathedrals and Mosques...they sure knew how to build some buildings...

Glory...to me mostly....

We visited the Mezquita mosque in Cordoba which was fantastic....what a space...we got there early so there werent many people about as it gets crowded later when the lazies have got their sorry @rses out of bed....

Different day different holy stuff....

We spend the Easter weekend in Seville where they have some of the largest Semana Santa celebrations....basically the place comes to a halt for a week as they display amazing structures, carrying them for yards at a time....well...actually...they carry them a long way...they have huge teams of people but the idea is they suffer as Christ suffered so share in his pain.....I watched....I didnt carry....

They have some amazing marching bands that process with the holy displays....its pretty fantadtic to listen to.....if you get in with the crowds in the street its very atmospheric....everyone should go and witness it....im going back....msotly for the Sherry.....noooo....not that much they advertise  for christmas....the range of sherries on offer is vast.....and they are all different and nothing like that cream muck you give to your Aunt Vera or Granny....

The tapas....im definitely going back for ox-cheeks....

We went to a place called El Loco....er...El Rocio actually...heh heh...its a few miles inland from Matalascana where we stayed for a few days.....

In El Rocio its a lot of old style sandy streets...horses and buggies/carts are still ridden around as a way of getting about and visitors park in car parks on the outskirts....

This guy above is in traditional costume which many still wear mostly for special occasions but the hats are worn daily....

Sandy street above with carriage.....mostly for us tourist types,...still...they have to get some money some how.....

This donkey never went anywhere and is stuck on a roundabout, but I coudlnt resist and insisted on a photo...even more so as the Olds failed to find a real donkey to ride.....I still recall the day I rode that tortoise in Greece....laugh...well...the tortoise wasnt laughing.....im sure he must be related to Froog as I heard him complaining about people....well...Im not people...

Look out....ive got the clap....ha bl00dy ha!!

Cordoba....another grand city to visit...they really are worth going to see....stop sitting on your @rse at home thinking of these places...get up, get on a plane and get going you lazy sods....

A visit for a bit of culture....Italica....near Seville.....a bit of the Romans....blimey, they get everywhere...well...they got everywhere....though actually they didnt get everywhere, obviously....who the hell would want to go to Australia....sorry you down under billabongers....but even I dont want to go....so shove that up yer didgereedoo with Rolf....

What can I say...the Old s-insisted.....yes...sin-sisted.....I closed my eyes....honest....and she lost her head...shes h-armless....and all those other crass jokes about old Romand sculptures that have been abused over the years and had bits fallen off.....age does actually age them....mostly with bits falling off....

Whilst visitng Chris Columbuses ships...well..replicas...lets face it...he didnt build them to last and most ships from 500 years ago didnt last....anyway...whislt there we came across this dead monster....so...sure as hell, the Olds said, wouldnt it be funny if we made it look as if he had tamed the beast....after all...I am beauty.....

All aboard.....Froogs line....he actually got quite animated, which was good....it meant he slept for a couple of days after so I didnt have to listen to his billy-bull....phew!

Heres the man....and the issues that ensued when, lets face it, he thought he knew where he was going but turned up somewhere else.....

Lets start with that name...Christopher Columbus....im not surprised they changed it as an anglicanisation....its actually Cristobal Colon.....yep...Colon....can you imagine....probably not a as many sh!t jokes about it back then I guess...but now...well...he was clearly a sh!t navigator.....'ok lads, lets find a direct route to Asia from Europe'....or...'ok lads, we need a holiday, ets go to the Bahamas'....is more like it...

He never found a route, never found America and his several ocean adventures were almost utdone by his dead remains adverntures being buried, dug up, moved around Spain and then to Hispaniola, what we now call the Dominican Repblic....then bakc to Spain....

And his maths was crap too....which is probably why he couldnt find his own backside in the dark...

Nothing more than finding a good sign to have your photo taken....what a Moron...

In Rhonda....where they still do bullfighting by the way...we came across these statues....there was a sign saying...dont climb on these cos if you do and we find you we will fine you.....meantime Dad had ignored this and placed me on the hand that could possibly take away the joy of taking a photo....via that fine....luckily for us no one seemed to care...so...bollox to em....theyre European anyway....

And...heres a load of bull....chances are slim that they ever get a chance to kill the matador...or the other 'dors' that ruin the bulls life....Spain is a great destination but they are still very backwards in many respects.....

Nope....nothing to do with that American cult....way before they even existed these guys in Spain were dressing up like it as part of the Semana Santa processions.....clearly the Americans know nothing, so few of them travelling out of the country or even being aware of the rest of the planet....education is a wonderful thing....and its a wonderful thing that most Americans stay in America.....

Meh....if youre famous for killing bulls....youre a first class dickhead....end of...

There are some wonderful views at Rhonda though and its a very picture-skew place....

Heres a bunch of old rusty armour that I suppose, in true European style, they dont give much of a toot about cos I could easily get on it for a photo....if this were home it would be in a glass box saying, this is old stuff dont touch....so I suppose Europeans do have something going for them....lack of preservation of the past for one thing....

Olivera is one of the 'white villages' up in the mountains....beautiful to look at, beautiful area to be situated in....usually on a big hill and usually with a good view....they had tried to ruin the good view by putting up this big sign....then they tried to ruin the big sign and view by putting stuff behind it....

Mind those big hands....

This is an amazing sculpture in the Cathedral in Seville....

James Taylore would be proud....up on the roof....though actually he didnt write it....quite why im on about him, with his best version of the song, I have no idea....anyway....Spanish roofs are great, architecture has a lot going for it....if its good....

Talking of architecture.....above is the Plaza de Espana....how grand....and below...a simple firestation....wow....try looking at the ones here in the UK.....as a fireman you would want to be based in this one....