Sunday was the last day of Corpus Christi week, Toledo’s major annual “fiesta”. My friend Catalina and I decided to take to the streets with our cameras before all the decorative splendour disappeared back into the box again for another year.
The main shopping street
Even the local theatre was beautified with some very fancy curtains for the occasion
Part of a floral display outside the cathedral
Never mind the giants lined up in front of the Town Hall, they make an appearance every year – but what’s with the hundreds of bags filled with water dangling down from the balcony?! I’m guessing it’s to do with spending cuts…
Is it me or do they look like they have goldfish in them…?
Catalina. I think she may be waaay off side 😉
All that hard toil out there in the scorching-hot streets deserved a reward at the end 🙂
Lady Of The Cakes 
Surely not? Goldfish that is…
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Nope… they’d have turned into fish soup in this heat!
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That thought had crossed my mind
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The mind is one thing… one’s olfactory nerves quite another. Urgh!
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My first thought was, ‘are there goldfish in those bags?!’ Poor fish! I hope they all went to homes…Nice pictures 🙂
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I’m fairly certain that that’s what must have inspired the concept 😉
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I once worked for a wedding caterer. One summer there was a rage for goldfish-in-a-bowl centerpieces. Unfortunately the temperature during one wedding reception crept perilously upward and we ended up with bowls of dead-goldfish-in-a-bowl as centerpieces.
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Awrh… not exactly an auspicious sign…! I bet half of those marriages will be dead in the water by now, fish or no fish 😉
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Oh dear, now that I’ve spent time in omen-obessed Asia, I realize that you’re exactly right!
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Nah, I was talking of statistics, rather than omens 😉
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Hadn’t thought of that either, but since I’ve seen four divorces between my parents (together and individually) I suppose you’re exactly right. It’s a statistical miracle I’m still married!
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It sort of looks like Christmas, very pretty!
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It does feel like this Corpus C(h)risti thing is bigger than Christmas… at least in Toledo!
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Love the anthuriums! I have a big beautiful one here at home in Toronto. Thriving after 14+ years in a pot. Hearty bastard.
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Must be one pampered pot plant that! I love the pink ones 🙂
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Mine’s a vibrant red. Wish I could find lipstick in that exact shade.
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Just rip out the yellow bit and stick it on your face. In a dingy bar, nobody’d know 😉
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And, as an added bonus, it would give me the big full lips I’ve always wanted.
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That’s right. Watch out, Angelina Jolie!
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Oh dear !!!! I didn´t realize I was caught! 😉
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Those plastic coloured bags brighten with sun creates a lovely efect! I have them too! 🙂
I wonder why you didn´t show the puddle..
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I’m saving The Puddle for a special occasion… it deserves a dedicated rant, that one.
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I particularly appreciated the ‘happy ending!’ 🙂
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I know how to please my punters…
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I’m pretty sure those are goldfish!
And I’m so glad you got your happy ending haha.
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I might steal one at night just to see what’s in them…
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More info on the food and drink please?
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Wine and cheese 😉 Oh, and croquetas, but they weren’t very good.
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Aw, you know I like a story with a happy ending! It’s so pretty and colourful and lively!
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As were we, after three glasses of wine each. (That dosage wouldn’t have any effect on you, I realise)
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In the sunshine and if I hadn’t eaten for a week, it might 😉
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How pretty! And chaaaaars!
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Chaaaawhatsits???
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Whatever is in that last photo, I want it all. Also, drinking in Crimea is so cheap!!!!
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Can’t go wrong with cheese and wine, can you 😉
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Cheese, wine, beer, vodka, fish, pork kebabs…. YUM (I am so sad to be back :((((( )
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And busy as hell, by the looks of it… I wondered where you got to!
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I need to type up 24 pieces for this blog and go through 4560 photos. I am mildly optimistic about work-work tomorrow bc I stayed on top of sh*t throughout 🙂 Otherwise I might have decided to never come back!
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Well, I shall look forward to your next ‘meaty’ blog piece 🙂
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Lovely pictures, the ‘goldfish’ in bags are so pretty. I might have to steal that idea for a garden party 🙂
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I’m sure they won’t mind 😉 It does look a bit labour intensive, though…
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Such pretty colours! The goldfish bags – were they decorations or prizes?
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Purely decorative 😉 …or maybe intended as water bombs, but if they were, I missed the hour of deployment!
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The goldfish bags totally creeped me out! But that cheese plate at the end–oh my. I’ll be thinking about that for the rest of the day.
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Oh, I just love it when my posts leave a tasteful impression…
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Great photos, you capture all the colour beautifully
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That guy in the pink shirt turned up just at the right time 😉
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You take the credit, not him. You took the photo at the right time
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