Here are some finds from my trip away- type and signage mainly but some beautiful architectural details too. The contrast between the tourist resort and a 'real' spanish town were massive- and funny. I wonder how it came around that tourist destinations were turned from authentic representations of the culture and place, into hotspots for cheese and tack.. luckily we made a trip into a town called Felantix which was much more rustic and pretty. Nice steps.
I really loved the street signs- the handcrafted look of placing individual tiles to make up one sign leads me to envisage a little spanish man, sporting a grey dusty mustache, going around with a map, a ladder and a big box of tiles- maybe a terracotta pot of cement? (my imagination hasn't quite got round the adhesive technicalities yet)- he arranges them carefully on the floor, stands back, takes a look whilst stroking his mustache, then takes them one by one up the ladder to stick on the wall. That's why some are a bit wonky because all he needs to position them is his finely tuned, laid back, spanish judgement. And he probably needs a siesta. Anyway.. I think they're a spot on representation of the typical architecture of the area.
And on the flip side I have some less then cultural examples of spanish signage. It tickles me that the owners of one particular bar have used those words as their
selling points.
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