Some Funny Stuff

Spain is strange, of course. It's a foreign country; it's supposed to be strange. If I didn't like strange, I wouldn't travel, right? So here's a list of things that have struck me as particularly funny or odd.

- In case you simply can't make it through a trip to the grocery store without a beer, there is a bar in the front of Simply market.

- As we walked out the door to head to the soccer game on Sunday "morning" (that's about 2pm) we accidentally caught sight of a young man, probably in his mid to late twenties, bent over to tie his shoe, exposing his entire underside. He was wearing a thong. A hot pink thong.

- There is an underwear store in Logrono whose display case is lit up at night and features rotating torsos to model the underwear. I have a video and if I have enough bandwidth later today I may post it. There are no thongs.

- There is a rad bar here called Jake. It's dark and grungy, usually uncrowded (and therefore unsmokey) and has good music and an arcade with tons of great old games. The thing is, "Jake" is not how you and I would say it. It's pronounced "haw-kgay".

- On the way back from Vitoria, we had to change trains at Miranda de Ebro. MDE is apparently THE hub for this part of Spain and as far as I know the train station is the entire town. We couldn't see our next platform so we followed and elaborate set of signs, down and up stairs, and through a tunnel only to come out about twenty feet from where we started with a clear path back to the original platform. How much money and effort went into creating tunnel access to platform 4?

- They have these cheap stores here that sell crap like notebooks and flip flops and all sorts of knickknacks. They're called Chinos. Really. Anyway, I needed a new towel, so we went to one when I first got here. We then found, across the aisle from the school supplies, a collection of figurines featuring women sitting on giant (proportional to the women) penises, plain ol' penises, and funny-looking penises. Why? Why why WHY why why?

- Possibly to be continued...