Hello lovely peeps,
I had scheduled this post, as per usual, to be posted at midnight. But i have just discovered that it hasn't posted at all. So sorry....
I have another postcard for you:
This one was sent to me from the Netherlands. It has an old Vespa type scooter on it. That takes me back it does.
Hester, who sent the card, went through the trouble of using more than one stamp. Aren't they great!
It's a bit flamenco-ish of course as I live in Andalusia. (I don't know if the video works).
On the way back we strolled through the old part of the village:
It was a super evening.
Unfortunately I have not been able to find much information about these stamps. The one on the right reads 'aalscholver', which means cormorant and I can't read the small print on the photo below as the resolution is too low.
The second from the right is a Christmas stamp from this series from 2024:
No information on any of them.
So, what have I been doing? It's been Feria (fair) time in my village, so the whole week went by with a sort of carnaval atmosphere. I went out a few times with my friends and the village itself is bursting at its seams with visitors.
I wanted to go and see a performance of a local singer called Maria del Tango. She is quite well known in the region and she grew up here. She has an amazing voice.
It's a bit flamenco-ish of course as I live in Andalusia. (I don't know if the video works).
My friend Antonia and I made sure we got seats so we came early and ordered some drinks and snacks:
As it's T for Tuesday, this will be my qualifier. They only sold beer, so that's what I had as I don't drink soft drinks (soda).
Antonia took this picture of me:
Then on another night I went out again with my friends Antonia and Patricia:
We went out at 9 and queued outside a baked potato place for some supper.
It was called Don Papón. (Papa is a potato, papón is a huge potato). And huge they were:
With the topping the potato is hardly visible. It was really delicious.
We managed to get a table behind and somebody was kind enough to photograph us three ladies:
It was a super evening.
That is all from me today. I am going to prepare the upstairs flat as I'm having my first HomeExchange guests on Wednesday. I want everything to be perfect.
Happy T-Day all,
Lisca
I have noticed the video hasn't come through and I don't know what to do about that, so here are two YouTube videos, both filmed in Caniles where I live. The first (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inVLRwYF9sA) is Maria with her mum and aunties who are teaching her an old folk song about the daughter of the miller and she does her own take on it of course.
The second (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gqkbiqEKWU) one is in black and white and was recorded the winter before last, also in my village.
This last one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoYiipVY8fo) is my favorite and it is also recorded and filmed in Caniles and has some lovely guitar playing in it as well. The venue is the recently restored tythe barn called the Posito.
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