Plaza de Cibeles

 This image captures a moment in time at the Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid, Spain, likely during the 1950s or early 1960s based on the vintage vehicles and trams. 

Location: The photo shows the famous plaza where the Cybele Palace (formerly the Palace of Communications) and the Bank of Spain building are located. 

Landmark: In the background, the iconic Metropolis Building is visible at the corner of Calle de Alcalá. Transportation: The scene includes vintage automobiles and a trolley bus/tram, which were common in Madrid during this era.

And now...

Bonus - A Small Typo Actually Helped End WWII — The Amazing Story About A Codebreaker

Nice Scenery and Bridge.

Makes a change from the cold and wet of current Britain.

This image shows the Puente de San Martín (St. Martin's Bridge), a historic medieval bridge spanning the Tagus River in Toledo, Spain. 

Constructed in the late 14th century, the bridge features five prominent arches, with the largest central arch spanning 40 meters. It was built to provide access to the old town from the western side and is fortified with defensive towers on both ends. 

A popular legend tells that the architect's wife secretly set fire to the scaffolding to hide a structural miscalculation before the inauguration, allowing it to be rebuilt stronger. 

Bonus - It hasn't changed much

Bonus 2 - My neighbourhood barber was just arrested for selling drugs.

I was a customer for seven years.

I never knew he was a barber.

 

End of Rotten Holiday

 

Writ upon a slip of paper in with these slides was "Portugal, Spain, End of Rotten Holiday."

No other info. But, the slides had a lot of images of cruise ships, horseback riding and such like, so... yeah.  Probably spain.

Some slides looked distinctly like Gibraltar, so this may be close by. 

Bonus - Strange. I thought birds flew south for winter. 

At The Bullfight

 

From the "School Easter Trip to Ibiza 1973" set, a trip to the Bullfight.

Bonus - Another entry for Trumps "Make _______ Great Again" challenge.  Example... Showers.

Bonus 2 - 

Guy Fawkes Night

 

I suppose I should spend some time searching for slides of Fireworks, or Bonfire or Guys.

Nah.

last night I scanned  new selection of slides, and yes they were mainly dull.

This one is basically tedious, but the presence of a chinese style lion sculpture, with a paw on a ball ....  looks intriguing.

I wonder where it was.

But I found this and  ... It's Madrid !

Bonus - Has poppymania gone too far?

Your Entertainment Tonight.... Senor Vila

 

The bad old days, from 1972, the entertaining racism of Senor Manuel Vila, a joke, a song and funny mis-use of the Spanglish language.

 Regular entertainment at the Hotel Splendid in Malaga.

Actually, it's Freddie Jones, a failed Red-Coat from Grimsby, with a light dusting of Kiwi shoe polish.

Bonus - 

Nice !

Bonus 2 - 

Yes, it's Groundhog Day

I'm Leaving, On A Jet Plane

 

"Don't know when I'll be back again."

Well, probably tomorrow.

yesterday ... weird dizzy light-headed sort of yeuchy feeling.

Slept for 13 hours, and didn't post a pic.

Todays?  Avianca steps, so probably in Spain, but the plane seems to be a BEA-liveried  one.

Bonus - Fan poops in aisle near Hillary and Chelsea Clinton at Broadway show

Valley of the Fallen, Civil War Memorial, Spain

 

A memorial, but still just a tedious image.

To be honest, there's very little of the Memorial visible here - basically the cross visible on the horizon.

Wiki Info

Bonus - Remains from 1936, found in Oregon State Hospital’s ‘Room of Forgotten Souls,’

Bonus 2 - How speed skaters train

Laying Low on the Costa Bravo

 

Slide number 5000 !

Google tells me that this post number 4943, so sometime I'll have to investigate...

But, Slide 5000 looks like Harry "Fingers" Hardy and Felix "The Wheel" Rochester of the Clerkenwell Mob have to hide out  in Spain until the heat dies down on the Ashbury Street Post Office job.

Bonus - Americans don't seem very good at estimating things.

The Engagement

 

Not all proposals of marriage are made on a spectacular beach in Fiji, or atop a mountain on a crisp September Morning.

Sometimes, the proposal is made accepted and marked with a ring in a dingy flat in (possibly) suburban Madrid.

Still, as long as they're happy.

Bonus - The Outrageous Baby Names Parents Picked In 2017.    "Lucifer....stop doing that to Solaris."

Bonus 2 - 

"We're All Going On An Easter Holiday"

 

Another "school-kids on an Easter Field Trip to the Mediterranean"  slide. And this one has a clue !

From the Lloret de Mar 1968 set, we have this slide of the assumed travel wagon.  "Glevum Coaches" leads back to Gloucester, so I'm presuming the school was in that area.

Interesting !

Bonus - 

Tedious? You want a tedious slide?

 

You got it

I suspect that this slide was shot here, but ... who knows?

Bonus - You wouldn't want to mess with the FV4005 Stage 2 Tank Destroyer

104km from Cordoba

And 55km from Ecija.

So, using my skills, judgement and a small portable Ouija board, I would estimate that this slide was taken in Carmona.

On a Thursday in June.  (OK, I guess that, but Carmona seems like my informed guess was correct.

Seems a shame to class this as a Tedious Tuesday slide, but...

Bonus - The Man Who Resurrected Kodachrome.

Bonus 2 - black sand beach in Iceland 

Another One For The Ladies

Because ladies are appreciative of pasty-faced skinny teens from the 1960's.   Yes, it's another from the School Cultural Trip to the Continent.  Today Lloret-de-Mar, 1968.

Bonus - It's December !

El Caballo

Possibly part of a series of "Crowds forming in 1950's European Capitals", as this was in the same box as yesterday's slide.

This one has definite clues to its location. Alas, "El Caballo"  ("The Horse") seems to have been a popular name for Tapas Restaurants, so I've not narrowed the location down any closer than "probably Madrid.".

Bonus - Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf

Town Planning

Who needs town planning when you can have organic town growth like here.

I dare say that parts of this town/city have existed longer than America has, and it looks great.

I just wonder where it is....

Bonus - Actually, that building on the right looks like Alcázar of Toledo.

Bonus 2 - Today's interesting word - Gastrolith

Disappointment

She may be smiling here, but on the inside Gladys is crying.  She's out here enjoying the morning sun on the beach.

Alas, her hubby Kenny is slumped in the back of a Marbella Titty-Bar, wallet emptied and a crust of vomit forming in his beard. Again.

Bonus - Animated Knots

The Corner Entrance (or Exit).

Today's slide is marked as Ubeda El Salvador which does rather confirm my suspicions that this is Sacra Capilla de El Salvador

The cornerway exit / entrance does intrigue me, in a geeky way. I wonder how rare such a configuration is.

Bonus - A little corner of America that will forever be British.

Bonus 2 -

Virus-Fighting

Today, we feature the rarely-celebrated sport of Virus Fighting.

With no TV support, and less spectators, it's a sport in need of a superstar. And this might e him.

Pedro "Cough Cough" Solera is the master of the sport, and can fight two viruses at the same time. Without a shirt.

Bonus - Nice Skate Action

Composition With Geek - No. 887

Been a while since I included one from the Easter Holiday - School Trip To Spain sets, so...let's correct that right now.


Bonus - All You Need is Weed.....or Yeast

Bonus 2 - Today would have been Patrick Moore's 96th Birthday.