The lions were supposed to be suitors
to a very fast young lady. They tried
to catch her by tricking her into picking
up golden apples during a foot race.
The trick angered the Cyble and she
turned the suitors into lions and forced
them to pull her chariot.
Santa Maria celebration in Madrid. We
managed to get front row seats to both
the church services at the Madrid
cathedral as well as at the Mayor Plaza
and then the parade.
wierd food, we spotted the Hard Rock
Cafe across the street. We talked to
the English host and had an old
fashioned hot fudge sunday.
bit of educational refuge on a fairly
cold day in Madrid. We noticed the
next morning that most of the flowers
around the city had frost bite.
pleasant area near one of the
more famous and more
difficult to see cathedrals.
Though the cathedral is still
there, the original cathedral
was burned down and the
only historically significant
part is the remaining front
facade.
are quite picturesque and very
reminiscent of what we think
Europe should look like.
decorations on the tops of the
buildings were, at time, more ornate
than the decorations that America puts
in it's best parks.
Madrid. We were there on St. Maria's
celebration so there were quite a few
others with us.
palace, there were human
"manequins" that performed any time
you dropped money into their hats.
There were also a pair of dancers that
were quite good at the Flamenco but
they stopped just as we decided to
take their picure.
Madrid. At least, I think it is the back
side. Either way, the royal family stays
here a couple of times a year. It is one
of the larges palaces in Europe though
it has the distinction of never being
finished.
that you'll see in the next picture was
directly in front of this palace. It's quite
a garden. I can't seem to talk Lester
into doing this with my front yard but
there is time yet.