The best weekend afternoons start like this:
Maria: Do you want to have lunch tomorrow?
Me: What kinda lunch?
Maria: Whatever happens to come with the drinks.
It’s very hard to argue with that. So for lunch we went. It lasted from 2pm till 10pm. Interspersed by a street theatre performance on Town Hall Square.
Lucía’s luminous drink
Pimientos de padrón. These are small green peppers, deep-fried, salted, totally addictive.
Toledo Cathedral lit up, and a sea of people waiting for the performance to start.
The performance included several eardrum-busting explosions, which sent clouds of dust and feathers up into the air. This is the back of a giant screen the performers used to project images onto.
Maria in the midst of the feather storm. Either that, or we’re having a bloody good pillow fight…
Lady Of The Cakes 
Ah, those peppers….I always have to ask for them NOT to salt so much or my mouth is salty for days afterwards. 😮
Looks like a lot of fun! 🙂
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Yes, I was a bit parched afterwards, I must admit 😉
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That’s the goal, isn’t it?!
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Quite 😉
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Love the feather storm! Especially the shot of the back of the screen. Arty.
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Someone with your photo faffery talents could have done something with that…!
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Nope. I like it just as it is : )
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Sounds like my kind of lunch! I’ve never had deep-fried green peppers. They looked delicious. I’m guessing they were heavily salted to make you drink more 😉
I can’t help but think of the mess of feathers to be cleaned up the next day. That’s me, always worrying about the practical side …
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I hope they have a giant vacuum cleaner…
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It’s rather windy here this morning. I’m imagining what it would be like in this wind with feathers all over the ground. What an experience that would be!!
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Oh, and get this: There were white, red, yellow and blue feathers 🙂
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That even better!!! A rainbow of fluff in the sunshine 🙂
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You just want to get search terms for sexy ladies pillow fighting, don’t you? 😉
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That IS my latest objective. I’m so transparent…!
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You have no shame 😉
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Nope.
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I like the pillow fight notion!
Curious about the performance – who, what, any good?? Or is this one of those things ANYONE in Toledo will already know about. And the rest of us are mere ignoramus??
As for the peppers – yum! Salty? Yes… Just an excuse to quench your thirst with another drink… or was it another.. and another??
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I have no idea. I believe it was some French troupe, and the performance was centred around the 4th centenary of El Greco’s death. We’ve had nearly a whole year of it already. Anyway, the event was a bit disappointing.
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Two things:
1. an 8 hour lunch sound DIVINE!
2. how unbelievably sweet are you to only have written one post during my self-imposed exile from WP this week??? I have spent the past 2 hours speed-reading through other bloggers’ tomes and then I find this on your site: short, fun and a breezy read! Thank you!
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LOL! It was a pleasure going easy on you…
Hope you’re enjoying your new job 🙂
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Enjoying may be an overstatement. Perhaps “overwhelmed” would be a more appropriate description. 🙂
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The first couple of months are bound to be tough… and with all that travelling!
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I’m hoping it’s mostly in-Canada travel to spend time with my team while I learn what it is they do. 🙂
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Concur: life’s Number One rule. Drink then eat (kebabs, curry and peppers!)
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I’d murder for a good curry right now…
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Love the atmospheric photos. And the peppers. And that amber drink. And the all-day lunch. Pity the performance was underwhelming but the rest sounds like a damn good day!
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Yes it was. There was an alcoholic coffee in there somewhere, and a Nutella-soaked waffle…
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I love the picture of María with the feathers. Though the feathers strike me as a smidgen surreal, I guess “surreal” is really what Spain is all about.
Saludos,
Kim G
Boston, MA
Where the only thing flying around today was snow. Ugh!
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They were real alright… but they’d definitely seen better days 😉
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Probably like the birds they were once attached to, LOL.
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Sounds like the perfect afternoon to me…
Deep fried AND salted peppers? Why didn’t I think of that? What do you recommend drinking to wash it down?
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I had white wine with those, but a cool beer will do just nicely 😉
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My old Basque boyfriend was very allergic to feathers – I can’t see this without imagining him sneezing his head off.
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But you’ll have won each and every pillow fight 😉
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Love the feather storm! I also love your conversation… whatever food comes with the drinks? Sounds good to me!
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The strategy sure works well in tapas-crazy Spain 😉
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All day drinks and lunch sound amazing…sadly, children tend to put the kibosh on extended drinking sessions 😦
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Not in Spain they don’t. People drag their toddlers about at all hours, for any duration. Once they are exhausted from running about and bawling they collapse into their push chairs, until they are ready to go again.
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Oh wow, that looks fantastic! Drinks, peppers, feathers….what else could a girl want?
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Kittens! But that’s just me, I realise.
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Now that I think about it, I could probably use a million dollars… :p
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One million…? How long is that going to last us? Let’s go for fifty. That should do.
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Fair enough 🙂 Fifty million it is. Oh, and a LOT of shoes….
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Wait… don’t you have a race car to buy? Fifty may not be enough. Not if you want shoes as well.
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A sugar daddy to buy me shoes, then?
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It seems like that was bit of “something special” mixed into that drink… all the photos are so trippy!
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Yup. ’tis called alcohol…
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Your drinking doesnt count as drinking.
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People keep saying that…
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Ich will ja nur mal erleben was so abgeht wenn du angeheitert bist.
Mit Glühwein und Spekulatius fang ma an
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Da bin ich dabei!!!
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What a perfect day. Were the peppers spicy hot? They sound great but I have to admit I’m really jonesing on the idea of the nutella waffle and spiked coffee…
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Nah, they weren’t hot, just a touch of pleasant bitterness. I could so do with another waffle right now…
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An Weihnachten teste ich mal deine trinkfestigkeit, dann kann man dir nichts mehr nachsagen!
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Mir fehlt noch viel Training….
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Lunch from 2pm to 10 pm? With drinks! Lovely.
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Spanish time tables are weird 😉
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wow – it did look like a pillow fight – and that is my kind of lunch outing – 2 til 10!! those spaniards! lol
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They sure know how to drag a good thing out 😉
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Hi, I didn’t know you could eat green peppers like that, I’ve never seen them on a restaurant menu here, must look out for them. I’m curious to try them.
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They are widely available here, it’s a standard menu item.
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