starting on 2 books this week (The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability and Red Vienna: Experiment in Working-Class Culture, 1919-1934); optimistically i’ll get both of these done in the next day or two

  • Che Banana@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The Moors & Christians festival is over, and we have about 2 more weeks of tourists to deal with, then a long weekend for us in the first week of Sept and my body is ready for it.

      • Che Banana@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        I cook for the tourists, lol.

        the festival is an annual reenactment of the Christians invading and conquering the castle. the first one took place in the year 1200 IFAIK…not sure eof the date but the people here did a reenactment for a visiting king, then made a holiday out of it.

        In reality, it’s groups that play dress up for 2 weeks while staying literally as drunk as possible…it’s hilarious. there is parade after parade and lots of bands, fireworks, drinking, and crowds. It is the height of the summer season.

        We live in an insane town…it has the most public holiday celebrations in all of Spain…which I’m not sure about because most towns we visit say the same.