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Saturday, Feb 03, 2007

More Moors

David Murray
2007-03-04 10:41:49

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it is pretty special this one, but fuck me, in comparison to others we have seen, it is tiny. Maybe this is why it is special. Maybe they have little dwarf bulls, with dwarf matadors and the people in the crowd are just dwarves !!! Actually, I work with a dwarf called Stephen, but I didn't see him there !!! With that, the day had finished, and there was only one thing to do. Rioja time !!!

It was our last morning and check out was at 12. I was feeling pretty lazy, so I just lay there. After Lucy put the boot in a few times, I had a shower and breakfast and then we hit the streets. Along the way, we found a bunch of locals in protest mode. It seemed like a good thing to do at the time, so we joined in. They were yelling out stuff in Spanish, mainly to do with the fact that they have to wear bad clothes and have dodgy haircuts, so I did the same. No fumar, no fumar, no fumar. They were chaining and laughing at me, well at least I wasn't being bashed by the police. That was the real reason I had come along. I wanted to see some of these Spanish have the fuck hit out of them with batons. What other reason do the police carry them for ? Eventually, we all got tired of each other, so we doubled back and made our way towards the Cathedral and the Giraldo. Apparently, it is the third largest one in the world, and I wanted to test out my brain to see if I could remember any of it. Acoording to the hostal and our notes, it is free on Sunday, and being the Jewboy, it was my day. When the doors opened, I nearly went back into protest mode. They fucking charged us like there was no tomorrow. So we paid and went in. The museum was ok, then into the main body. It is huge, and we kind of lost each other quite quickly. There are various things to see here, but one of the main attractions is that they use to think that Colombus was buried here, but like Jesus, he had a second coming and is now meant to live in the Dominican Republic ??? There wasn't much more to see, so off we went to the Giraldo. He isn't some purse carrying Nancy boy from Spain, but it is the name for the old minaret which is still attached to the Cathedral. As you climb, there are no steps, but just one big slope. I did read once that the old Mullah use to ride up on a horse in the old Izzy days, just so he could do his five calls a day. Lazy fucker !!! The views from the top are good, we even manage to see the dwarfish bullring, and from up there, it was even smaller !!! We hung out, taking photos, and just being tourists, then we came down. At the bottom is the old orangery. The Izzy lovers use to perform their ablutions here and the huge old wash pit is still there. And just in case you have read Dan Brown's book, Digital Fortress, this is where it was set. And then it was done. We went back and grabbed our bags, and jumped on the bus and went to the airport. It had been a fun weekend, but it was over and we had to go home.

And Finally

A couple things I don't get. Everywhere you go, there are pig legs where the ham is carved from the bone. I have never seen a live pig in Spain !!! We also did see three Izzy lovers, were they the leftovers from the old Moorish days??? And lastly, I can't believe how fucked up I am that I couldn't remember it though, maybe, I will have to do another campervan trip to see how bad my memory is !!!