|
April in Seville smells like oranges. White-blossomed orange trees stand almost everywhere throughout Sevilla, from the Patio de Naranjos (Court of Oranges) of the city’s famous cathedral and the courtyard garden of the Alcazar to the grounds of the marina on the Guadalquivir River, where I flew to meet cruising friends who had wintered in [...]
{ 1 comment }
County fairs are in full swing around the Midwest about now, and they are reminding me of the Feria de Abril in Seville. The two have similar origins….Seville’s spring fair has been going on since 1847, when it started as an agricultural and cattle trading event. The livestock is mostly gone today, except for horses [...]
{ 1 comment }
A few weeks ago on NPR’s All Things Considered, Andrei Codrescu shared his experience with a new iPhone app that makes books published before 1923, and no longer protected by copyright, available. After coming across a title from 1911 that explores prehistoric cave dwellings, subterranean churches, “thieves’ dens” and the like, Codrescu asked a good, [...]
{ 0 comments }