2 posts tagged “spain”

Here is just a sample of some of the photos which I have been uploading to my flickr account recently.

This was Cadet Corps parade - the first one of the new term, so obviously some of the kids had forgotten their uniform, or couldn't find it, or put it in the wash,or.......The certainly didn't seem too pleased to be on parade!  I took a series of shots with all the cadets looking various shades of miserable.

Later on they cheered up as they got on with the afternoon's activities.  Some of the RAF were doing a command task - blindfold challenge - but that didn't stop one boy from posing as soon as he saw the camera.

I've also uploaded some pictures from my holiday in Spain.  This one is from a series of two boys play fighting on the beach - again they seemed to respond well to the camera.

I've also added some old photos - here's one of some students on a Duke of Edinburgh Award overnight walking expedition in the Cotswolds.  This was 2005.

Finally I used fd's flickr toys to create a mosaic of photos featuring my wife.

I'm just back from a week's holiday in Spain.  We went to the Costa Del Sol, to the lesser known resort of Nerja. Nerja is about an hours drive east of Malaga, past Torrox.  It's an area of small coves, with fine shingle beaches and usually cliffs to get down.  There aren't the high rise blocks that you get in the big resorts, but still lots of building and a big English community.  The building developments seem to be mainly 1 and 2 bed apartments, that look very smart and colourful, and Spanish (at least when new).  The weeather was unusually poor with one day of rain all day, and couple of other days with showers, and, of course, the weather in England was unusually sunny and hot!

I took a few photos - see the collection opposite - most of which are self-explanatory.  But on Easter Sunday after the English service, there was a parade through the town which was most odd.  Basically all the town dignatories traipse around town carrying varying icons around with a brass band and drums, and lots of people dressed in weird robes and even weirder conical hats like the Klu Klux Klan (apparently they are penitents).  I also took lots of photos of the Cuevas de Nerja (caves) with some wonderful stalactites and stalagmites, discovered in 1959 but showing signs of having been occupied by pre-historic cavemen.