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| Nazareno, love the colour and drape of his gown |
Maundy Thursday and women are dressed in black dresses and black mantillas mounted on high combs in their hair. The lace is gorgeous and they fall as a cape over the dress. I should have taken a picture of three young ladies all dressed but was a bit shy to ask. Shawn wasn't, here's her version.
Ivan suggested a driving tour of the Aljarafe, a mountainous area close to Sevilla, through small towns and white buildings.
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| Church Steeple |
Pine trees as we’ve seen before in part of Donada Park, we were in part of it, and lovely cacti which produce fruit people eat.
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| Pine trees |
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| Lush patio flowers |
Getting there and we came across an absurd incident none of us have an explanation for. Car stopped in our lane, naked man standing in front of it, honestly not a pretty picture, his clothes a few meters up, two smashed cars one on either side of the road, one in a ditch and people just seemed to be getting out. Huh! Don’t get the naked guy at all, and won’t speculate.
Rice is a huge crop in this area and there are man made streams and rivers which are dammed to control the water flow. Rice is planted in May and harvested in September which would be very hot work. Ivan compared it to the Everglades in Florida although I don’t think rice is a grown there, but the waterways. Rumour has it there is a lot of drug smuggling in this area due to the ability to hide behind the tall reeds, we would call them a type of pampas grass, and the maze of channels of water, roads are a maze as well. Lots and lots of storks in their large nests, even a stork “condo”.
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| These two were along the road to the Visitor's Centre, nest was low to the road |
Ivan used his GPS he named Sophie. Sophie is really handy and worth her weight, what ever it is, in gold, those few times Ivan doesn’t know his way. While he knows the areas around Sevilla very well she still comes in handy sometimes. It’s an app, but helpful and fun he’s named her Sophie.
Stopped and had lunch at a locals bar which had rice dishes mixed with turmeric and pheasant, chicken, duck or rabbit. Bruce would have eaten the sauce and rice, no meat because the meat was not the star in this dish the sauce and rice were, heavy on turmeric and other spices. We dined outdoors under bamboo reeds made into a canopy. Local cat came running as soon as food was on the table and while she was so very cute we didn’t feed her, others did.
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| Pleeeeease feed me! |
The whole day was really a treat, to get away from the City since we haven’t for a while and hadn’t thought we needed to but did really. Just to get into quiet places was lovely and green spaces too.
All for now,
Cheers, Bev, Bruce and Lexi Cat
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