Every year I try to get over to the April spring fair (Feria de abril) at least once to take photos of the horses during the afternoon. This year I also saw what appear to be Feria hoes!
It wasn’t a great day for taking pics, all overcast and grey. But at least it wasn’t raining and so I spent a couple of hours walking around the site after lunch.
When I first moved to Sevilla I was much more interested in Feria and would join the crowds for the opening night “alumbrao” when they lit up the gateway at midnight on the Monday and then stay until the wee hours. Although it’s pretty much an exclusive event for those who can afford their own private caseta, I would always get plenty of invitations so I could avoid the (quite awful) barnlike public ones. But frankly, since I don’t dance sevillanas and don’t enjoy milling about talking trash with a bunch of privileged posers, I eventually stopped going, except to see the horses.
There are more Feria photos – including some of horses for Beth! – over here.
I also quite like this collage of colourful ruffles I made…
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casa azahar 
Apparently they’re not hoes, but canis. So said a Spanish tweeter when you tweeted this pic. I did see a few young ladies in short white dresses with 6-inch white stilettoes, so makes sense. As an Essex girl myself, I can identify with that.
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Canis??
I was going with Gypsies, having watched a fair number of “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” episodes.
The photos are terriffic, Az, as usual.
Unfortunately, you don’t have the Share feature available for both of your sites. If you can, please add one for Google+? Not the one for “Liking” on Google+ but the full link share button. I’d love to share your blogs there.
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Ah, but it doesn’t mean they can’t be canis *and* hoes, Fiona! According to someone else on Twitter you “just jangle some gold chains, play reggaeton and they’re all yours” so it sounds like a fine line to me. 🙂
(note to readers: canis = trailer trash)
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That horse with the man in the black hat – so gorgeous. I could look at those horses every day. Wish I had one. Wish I’d win the lottery, then I’d come look at yours. 🙂
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That horse was stunning! My favourite one of the day. Unfortunately it didn’t stay still long enough to get a better shot of it.
I also found that HUGE horse astounding – had never seen anything like it before.
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