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Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 5/8/2012: Spanish crisis is suspended

Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 5/8/2012: Spanish crisis is suspended
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 21:57:07 +1000
You probably don't need to know how to play it, just how to throw/catch it !

...Wayne


> 
> Hum. It seems the synchronized sax throw attracts the ladies. Hum. Wonder
> if I'm too old to take up the sax. <g>
> 
> --Bob
> 
> 
> On Aug 6, 2012, at 2:08 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> 
> > Two for one this morning, since I took around 150 pictures yesterday.
> >
> > My son and I drove to the town of Almoradí, 50 km from Alicante,
> yesterday, to partake in the final day of the 3-day Moros y Cristianos
festival.
> It was, to put it mildly, a wonderful and photogenic occasion, and the
crisis
> was far, far away, at least this Sunday.
> >
> > I witnessed the birth of what will surely be an Olympic event some day.
It is
> certainly as legitimate as beach volleyball:
> > <http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-
> Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2008855144&k=zBCBGNr&lb=1&s=O>
> >
> > The audience of enthusiastic señoritas liked what they saw:
> > <http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-
> Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2008855380&k=8pJJnLQ&lb=1&s=O>
> >
> > Those Moros y Cristianos festival occur in almost all Spanish towns (at
least
> in this region) throughout the year. As the name implies, they commemorate
> the Moorish occupation in the early middle ages and the Reconquista in the
> late middle ages. This is not a "bad vs. evil" kind of image, though. Both
sides
> are portrayed in a favourable light, and indeed we were in Almoradí as
guests
> of the Moors.
> 
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