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July 22nd 2012

Published: July 24th 2012

* Warning, some animals were harmed in the making of this blog. As we all know, 2012 has been a most wonderful summer in the UK, glorious sunshine for weeks on end and not a drop of rain... OK, a complete lie and it has been a terrible summer so far, so I was glad that I'd actually had a few days of sunshine ahead to break the monotony of the dreary British summer. Arranging to meet old coll... Read Full Entry

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One last view of my garden to be

Just need to overthrow the Spanish Royal family now

Strange things for sale in shops #1

A most beautiful dress, spots are very on trend in downtown Seville.

Strange things for sale in shops #2

For all your religious procession needs..

Strange things for sale in shops #3

Swords R us, not sure if they are for generally dueling or bull fighting, or perhaps just for making kebabs on the BBQ

Strange things for sale in shops #4

I really have NO idea!

The killing field

The bull ring in Seville, blood on the sand...

Plaza de Toros de las Maestranza

A fully working bull ring

Blood on their hands..

The line up for the bull fight

Enter the picadores

They didn't actually do anything, so at least they weren't mean to the horses

And so it begins

The bull fight starts with the matadors parading around the ring in their very masculine (ahem) sequin suits.

Go toro!

The dance continues

Tercio de muerte

The final third of the bull fight, not long to go now

Bull 0 - Matador 1

Senior Lama De Gongora (quite an apt name) on his victory parade taking a drink of some wine thrown in from the crowd. Note the blood on his pants, sadly not his!

Pueblo Puerto

One of the bridges in Ronda

Moor walls

Lots of them about

El Pueblo Blanco

Ronda peeping through the Moorish walls

Santa Maria la Mayor

It provided a nice view while eating my paella

The high life

Don't have your lunch here if you are scared of heights

Location, location, location

The Tajo gorge, some how I don't think people would bother building here these days

Precipice pueblo

Puente Nuevo

The famous three tiered bridge, I drove across it far too many times, scary

3rd August 2012

Tim Coulton
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Is korfball in the Olympics?
Good to see you are on the move as usual. Pity you had to perform that jig in your nighty due to lost luggage. Nice to see collage friends sticking together. From the title thought you'd visited Dartmoor so slightly dissappointed. Down here, renovation finally complete, moving in next week. Almost killed me. T

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