A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 24 June 2025 - T for cathedral, heat and bunny rabbits

 Hello lovely girls, How are you all? 

Here we are again meeting at the T-party hosted by Bluebeard and Elizabeth. I have drinks to share with you but first I'd like to share my postcard. It comes from Germany:

It shows the old town hall in Erkelenz, which is a town in the Rhineland in western Germany (near the Dutch border). It is a medium-sized town (over 44,000 inhabitants)

In Wikipedia I found this info: Despite the town having more than 1,000 years of history and tradition, in 2006 the eastern part of the borough was cleared to make way for the Garzweiler II brown coal pit operated by RWE Power. This is planned to be in operation until 2045. Over five thousand people from ten villages have had to be resettled as a result. (Read more about this here)

I love that rabbit stamp. It's from a series of Haustiere (domestic animals, pets). I couldn't find a photo of the whole series but here is another one:

And there's a beautiful dog too:

I've been quite busy. Friday I went to Granada to visit my new friend Sally, whom I met during my senior holiday earlier this year. She lives right in the old center of town on the 5th floor (with beautiful views over the city). I mentioned that I had never visited the cathedral, so that is where we went.

It's huge. Wikipedia writes:  The Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Incarnation, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Granada, Spain. The cathedral is the seat of the Archdiocese of Granada. Like many other cathedrals in Andalusia, it was built on top of the city's main mosque after the reconquest of Granada.

Granada's cathedral has a rectangular base due to its five naves that completely cover the cross. All of the five naves are staggered in height, the central one being the largest. At the foot of the cathedral there are two towers. The left one, called the tower of San Miguel, acts as a buttress which replaced the planned tower on that side.

I absolutely loved the organs. I thought there were 4 organs:

There are two, as you can see. When I walked to the other side, it seemed there were two more but it is part of the same organ, only the back side:

From the website Granada Cristiana I found this: It should be noted that the acoustics of the church act as a magnificent sounding board for the instruments and, moreover, it is not possible to use them simultaneously in repertoire works for double organ due to their different elements of harmonisation, tuning, timbre and style.

Nevertheless, for the celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in 1894, given that the organs were in the same tuning, the mass was celebrated with the orchestra accompanied by the 2 organs.

Below is my friend Sally 

There are some enormous doors:

Below is a carriage/float (I don't know what these things are called) used in a procession (I think the previous day):

Another large door. I posed in front of it just to show you the size of it!

One last photo before you get fed up:

Now, I mustn't forget to show you my drink.

Sally and I had lunch in a restaurant called La Cueva:

We sat at the back, on the right up the steps:

Our first course was aubergines (egg plant) with molasses:

You can see a glass of beer there on the table (It was 0/0% as I was driving).

One more photo before I finish:

Oh, and did I mention it was hot?

41 Degrees C is near 106 degrees F!

That's it lovely ladies,

I'm off!

Happy T-Day to all,

Lisca