Hatventures in Andalucía

[Huertecilla]

Let´s see it I can get the requests all together now.
We went to the weekly market this morning and I made some snaps of the every day scenery.
So hats, dogs, location and food.
I don´t know how to crop, modify or whatever so the fotos are as I shot them, not even a selection.

end of part 1.

 

[Huertecilla]

Part 2.

The drinks are 1 Euro for coffee and beer, 1.50 for soda and 0.25 - 0.50 for tapas though my gf and me get them for free.

I hope you have enjoyed it.

 

[Fastuni]

I don't want to be a killjoy for those interested in your stories - just a well meant hint: the FL has a special place for things like that.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/forumdisplay.php?13-The-Steamer-Trunk

Not sure these stories about dogs, walks, roman ruins, drink prices and snacks are all that pertinent for the Hat section...

 

[CaramelSmoothie]

Look at those food portions! Here in the states that would be considered a kiddie meal, LOL!

Also, the photos features hats and men with hats as well as stories about the hat factory so seems like it belongs in this section to me.

 

[CaramelSmoothie]

Another thing I notice in the pics is that the majority of men seem to be big around the middle, lol.

 

[Huertecilla]

The bellies have two causes;
- the good life; mediteranean diet without fysical work/excersize
- the local dialect has them swallow the ends of words and verbs

The plates are just the tapas* of choice you get with your drink if you like.
The coffee comes with a cookie.

As to the subject I don't care where it goes but I will refuse to split it all up and thus simply not share. The trip to Sevilla p.e. will probably envolve several aspects with hat related adventures and aspects. There are two options only; I will share or I don't.
Me, I will have the fun anyway.
TIOLI.

By the way, the hat factory experience is ... euhmmmmm ... typical andaluz:
Send them an email and/or fill in the contact form on the site and ... NOTHING.
Drop the a call and you get a person who should be fired for the way he answers the phone; 'mumble.., diga!'
My 12 y.o. son has been doing a better job for 5 years.
I have NO idea whom I am talking to, not even if it indeed is Isesa and ask for someone from sales or marketing.
'She is not in'. Period.
One needs to ask further or hang up so I enquire further upon which he responds;
'She will be back monday.' Period.
I get no name, no direct number and have to insist he takes my data...
Sigh.
Oh and from experience I know that her being back on monday translates to better not call before tuesday as she will be in a pms-like state because of the backlog.

This is the norm over here. The customer is just a bother who's role is to pay and disappear. After 13 years here I can still not get used to it.

On the other hand it does make a normal well mannered, - trim guy king in the land of the rude, round bellied, box thinking male collective

* is it of interest to explain about tapas or is that too far off topic annoyance?

 

[buler]

I don't want to be a killjoy for those interested in your stories - just a well meant hint: the FL has a special place for things like that.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/forumdisplay.php?13-The-Steamer-Trunk

Not sure these stories about dogs, walks, roman ruins, drink prices and snacks are all that pertinent for the Hat section...

+1

 

[hatsRme]

I don't want to be a killjoy for those interested in your stories - just a well meant hint: the FL has a special place for things like that.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/forumdisplay.php?13-The-Steamer-Trunk

Not sure these stories about dogs, walks, roman ruins, drink prices and snacks are all that pertinent for the Hat section...

Agreed, But I DO want to encourage the continuation of your posts, Huertecilla. You certainly put a great deal of thought and time into them, and it's now obvious that you have something of a following. Even on another thread, (such as the aforementioned "Steamer Trunk") you MUST continue... Please, and Thank you!

 

[alanfgag]

I don't want to be a killjoy for those interested in your stories - just a well meant hint: the FL has a special place for things like that.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/forumdisplay.php?13-The-Steamer-Trunk

Not sure these stories about dogs, walks, roman ruins, drink prices and snacks are all that pertinent for the Hat section...

+2

 

[CaramelSmoothie]

Agreed, But I DO want to encourage the continuation of your posts, Huertecilla. You certainly put a great deal of thought and time into them, and it's now obvious that you have something of a following. Even on another thread, (such as the aforementioned "Steamer Trunk") you MUST continue... Please, and Thank you!

I agree. I love his pictures and stories (even if I do have to use Google Translation for parts of it, lol) and whether in the Steamer Trunk or here I will certainly continue to read and marvel at his travels when he is out and about.

Tapas style restaurants have popped up here in DC over the last 10 years or so. The city is being gentrified so these tapas style restaurants have set up shop to cater to the newcomers. While I think the concept is great, one look at the prices and all I can do is just shake my head and laugh. You mean you want to charge me that much when I can get a down home stick to your ribs meal at a restaurant that is ran by an old woman cooking good southern food? lol. They have to charge the exorbitant prices to pay their sky high rent and other outrageously priced expenses though. Me, I will stick to the small mom and pop restaurants that serve home cooked meals with generous portions and go to the farmer's markets on the weekends to buy good quality foods that I prepare for myself.


Anyway, keep the pics coming!

 

[Huertecilla]

Tapas style restaurants have popped up here in DC over the last 10 years or so.

Tapa = lid, cover. Apt for a hat forum :eusa_clap
In fact ´tapa tu cabeza´ = ´cover your head´ is essential advise under the sun and synonym for ´put your hat on´.

Back to tapa(s) as food.
In past centuries travellers on horse back or by coach would stop for a wine at a venta (road side bar). With lots of horses in front, round the corner, there were lots of flies. To keep the wine free of drowned insects a cover was placed on top like a small soucer.
To entice the travellers to stay for a meal clever entrepeneurs put an appetiser on it.

Over the 20th century this evolved into a single bite sized snack coming free with any refreshment, beverage. It still also was an appetiser and a sample of what was for lunch, diner. Hence tapas time was and is just before lunch or diner.

In the 21st C. as ´tapas´became internationalised as something on itself by tourists and marketing of ditto ´Spain´ abroad, in tourist areas the tapas became something to order with the drink at extra cost and this is now reaching the interior.
In our village the bite size comes for free, the larger ones as in the photos come at a small cost.

Even today though it is usual to order half a ration or a ration of the tapa(s) for the meal.
The menu of the day is chalked on a board and that is also the array of tapas available or vv. a list of tapas as the sample of the menu.
´Tapas restaurant´ as such is a bit of a misnomer and simply an exploitation of popularity.

 

[CaramelSmoothie]

Not surprising that the way tapas is used here is not used as its original meaning. I notice that in one of the pics a man has his hat resting on his knee, I am assuming that restaurants there have no place for people to put their hats? I can only think of one restaurant here that has a coat and hat check so that the patrons don't have to worry about their hats while eating their dinner. Is it the same over there?

 

[Huertecilla]

The only coat check I know of is at the Cervantes opera house in Málaga capital.
Nope. nóóó provisions for hats. Just very occasionally a lonely stand alone combined coat, hat thingy on a risky location if you are ´lucky´.

 

[Huertecilla]

btw in dutch a synonym for ´hoed´ (hat) in male context is ´hoofddeksel´ = head-lid = tapacabeza.

Which brings me to dutch hats and - hat history. Different topic but VERY interesting since it is a-typical. Today largely forgotten but the dutch language still knows some 50!!! sayings with a hat theme.