Scrapbok - Cádiz Carnaval 2001

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Blame it on Rio

álbum de los bares
Piñata Domingo 2001

The intention was to visit the Gastronomic Fiestas for such delicacies as Berza (vegetable stew), fried fish and, a little further out, Tortillas de Camarones (hurrah!).
But the best planned lays of mice and men, as Rabbie would say, often screw up when you get up at 3pm with a hangover.
So I ended up in Silmara's bar as well as a few others. I did get a few other pictures, so here goes:

Cádiz Market: special offer on Scotch Salmon?
No - just the last carousel of choirs

Ilegales: Chirigotas of the Streets

Las Viejas de Psicosis
(The Old Ladies from Psycho)
I'm going to kill you

Sample 'Cuplet': They tell me that drugs kill

Dicen que la droga mata.
Pues yo me siento fenomenal
En cambio las hojaldrinas
Aunque mata no es ilegal
Yo me fumo un canutito
Y le sienta bien a todo mi cuerpo
Las hojaldrinas al revés
Que me sientan pa' to' sus muertos

Solo fumo canuto si estoy despierta,
Pegando el pellizquito soy una experta
Tu en el fondo eres como yo, pillín, pillon
Te he visto en la Plaza Mina
Con unos coleguitas
Metiéndote un cuarto de hojaldrina

(Translate into English.
Time allowed 5 minutes.
Drugs may not be used.)

S.P.Q.R. [Sesar, Que Picha Ruinasa]
(Caesar, What a Disastrous Prick)

Sample 'Cuplet': As gasoline goes through the roof

Como ha subido la gasolina por Dios
Se he puesto el petrolio al precio del buen jamón
Cada vez que hecho la gasolina
Tengo que sacar unas treinta mil
Y rezar fuerte pa' que esta vez
Fuera como fuera
Llegara el coche hasta la otra gasolinera

Pero escuché a un ministro tonto
Se sorteará la crisis pronto
Se sorteará, no te equivoces,
Pero llevamos to's los números pa' que toque

(As gasoline goes through the roof, the price of petrol
is now like that of the best ham
Every time I want to get petrol,
I have to draw out about a hundred quid
And I fervently pray that this time, somehow
the car will make it to the next petrol station

But I hear some stupid minister who says
they'll sort out the crisis soon.
They'll sort it out, never fear
But we'll take all the numbers they ring.

i.e. we'll foot the bill & we're talking telephone numbers!
Ring any bells, fellow Brits?)

Enough of this: Bibendum (Bebemos - Let's drink!)

Antonio in his bar, La Antigua, Calle Rosa
That's Alfonso, a law student from Mexico, behind him

Silmara and Jesús
at Sabor a Brasil on Obispo

Burn the Witch!!
All this made me rather late
for all the other stuff, so I went for a meal in a wonderful restaurant on Plocia with a Dutch chef/proprietor (thanks for the recommendation, Bob & Caroline).

Things were already winding down: the odd abandoned float sat forlornly in a side-street and confused kids had trouble distinguishing their friends from the street furniture,

Help, I have been superglued to a junction box!

so I missed the traditional burning of the witch, Pitti, on the beach.
You'll have to settle for a dark picture of the fireman, dousing her chair.
Then, after a couple of groups of revellers on the beach, I shall leave you, as we were left, with a firework display. Make your own sound effects...
Yes, things carried for a wee while in La Viña, but a sudden shower sent me home just after midnight, to download photos, set up web pages and then sleep it all off.
And that, said John, is that. Except for the mini Carnaval next Sunday (no, I'm not kidding) in Plaza de las Flores - expect no pics.
Thanks to everyone who posed for me (Gracias a todo mis modelas!) - no shrinking violets here!
So - what costume for next year? Where will I be next year?
That could be up to you.
If you'd like to see my scrapbook from a Brazilian Carnival or New Orleans Mardi Gras, simply send me your preference, along with all your money, now and the most generous donor will get to choose the venue.

See you there. Bring Pizza! Until then, party on, guys!

Another mysterious case of spontaneous combustion in Cádiz

EEUURRGGH!

OOOOO!

OH!
MMM, NICE!
OOH!
AAAAAH!
AAAH!
OH YES! OH YES!

FIN