John : Part 1:Collection of photos

Photos I Wanted To Tell You About When I Took Them But I Didn't Get Around

I am at the stage of the trip now when I have seen so many wonderful things that they are starting to blur into one. It is also at the stage where I am asking Jule where we saw something but I can't remember where. Most importantly it is time to share with you the photos that when I took them, I thought "I really must tell the folks or (insert name) at home about this, and I haven't got round to it. So here goes.

This is kind of like a Cordoban Spanish "Chicko Roll" called a Flamenquin Cordobes. For fried food it didn't taste too bad.

These are photos of some Spanish gold and silver which I wouldn't mind owning.

I remember telling Jule that I had to tell Linda that she has a railway station named after her. It's pronounced "Lowkay" which is pretty close to Lukey.

A warning to all travellers to be careful where you sit in foreign cafes. The sign says "Make love not diets!"

A particularly bloodthirsty French King (I think it was a Charles) had a particularly nasty way of deciding whether someone should live or die, and betting big money on the result. After locking someone up for a long time he would bring them out into the daylight to play "The Game." The poor prisoner would have to walk blind folded from one side of the big square shown below to the other and end up between statues of two horses. If he succeeded he lived. If he didn't he was executed. I tried it ( walking that is) with my eyes closed and even only a few steps I was veering to the left and would have missed the target by a mile.

 I didn't feel so bad when the guide told us that the success rate then and now was/is almost zero. Players in the game become disoriented because, the paving is uneven and there is a slope which in itself is uneven in height and degree. Add to that the fear or mental anguish you would be experiencing  by being subjected  to the taunts, and calls of the crowd who came to watch the spectacle, all of which added up to make "The Game." unwinable.

The cobblestone roads I have told you about that make driving over them a bone shaking experience.