Tuesday, February 11, 2025
With a Mariners practice scheduled for tonight, my desire to explore had to be kept in check to some degree.
Thus, I walked to the Plaza de Europa to catch the #14 bus heading to the northeast, rural suburbs of the city known as Xixón in the ancient Astur language.
I did come across this sobering plaque
dedicated to eight women who were executed
in 1936 and 1937 by the Fascist Franco regime
for defending democracy and liberty
Gijón's large dog park near the apartment
Good looking Spritz bottles in the
café where I imbibed my morning
café con leche
I got off the #14 bus after a 20 minute
ride literally in the boonies of Gijón
The rural farmhouse and hórreo caught my eye as I stepped off the bus.
An hórreo or grain storage building
is a beautiful thing to behold in the
Asturian countryside
Camin de la Mina
It looked promising, so off I went.
Perfect spot for an ambush by highwaymen
Instead, it was a herd of goats
that descended upon me
Nice ram horns
A country fixer-upper
What is on top of these fenceposts?
Quite attractive if you ask me
After traipsing about the pastoral settings the surrounded me for about 45 minutes, I headed back to town.
A stream feeding into the Cantabrian Sea
at the east end of Playa de San Lorenzo
Some tide pools it appeared
Sun worshipers by those tide pools
I liked that man's sun bathing pose.
Reflections
After living in Gijón for 35 days now, I can finally relate to our grandson Jacob that, "Gijón IS a city!"
Directly behind this abba THE ROOF TERRACE building, I finally discovered . . .
. . . the Golden Arches!
Yes, Jacob, we have a McDonald's
thus the European Union recognizes
our claim to be an actual city!
The McDonald's Play Area included . . .
. . . a seven foot indoor basketball
hoop just made for dunking!
A typical McDonald's ordering screen
I had entered, I had perused but I did not order any food.
I'm in Spain you know, I'll not eat American franchise store cuisine while I'm on the Continent.
After flirting with this potential disaster, I strolled into Gijón's Parque Infantil de Tráfico.
I've never liked these odd looking
evergreens as possible Christmas trees
Spanish parks love statuary
He really needs to work harder
on Leg Days in the gym
Powerful looking people, the man on
the far right appears to be a miner
For many, many years the economic lifeblood of Asturias was indeed the mining industry.
A fine piece of metal work
Old stone masonry
Not really sure what shenanigans
these two ladies are up to here
It was time to make tracks back to the apartment as my physical fitness walk continued.
I just liked this sign for this company
specializing in home repairs
Octopus is a big part of the cuisine all
along the Costa Verde of northern Spain
Jesús Fernández Duro
1878-1906
First, GREAT MUSTACHE!
Duro was one of Gijón's most amazing citizens.
In 1902, he set a long distance automobile speed record when he left Gijón on September 14th on a roundtrip drive Moscow. He set the record when he arrived back on Gijón on December 2nd.
The roundtrip distance between Gijón and Moscow is about 8,050 kilometers/5,000 miles. Just imagine what driving on dirt roads for that distance must have been like in one of the rudimentary vehicles of 123 years ago.
Duro was also the first person to cross over the Pyrenees Mountains that separate Spain and France by air, doing it in a hot air balloon. He would go on to be a Spanish pioneer in the area of civil aeronautics.
His amazing life was cut short by typhoid fever.
Cabbage patch but no kids
American Football is catching on in
the world of women's haute couture
Asturias' favorite version of the BVM
Car Drivers
Think
About the Children
Troubling
Just another AWESOME entryway
At 8:00 p.m., we had a practice to conduct.
I spotted this sporty truck
by our practice field
I helped Coach Daniel Castañon
with the Junior Flag team workout
We had 21 players at our Senior
practice including this LB chanting
his Defensive mantra
Our Offensive Line's rolling strike continued for the third straight workout.
Half-line scrimmage was our only remedy.
One more full practice on Thursday night plus a one hour walk-through review on Friday before we board the bus to Madrid on Saturday at 6:40 a.m. for our Gijón Mariners (1-2) at Osos Rivas (2-1) game to close out the first half of the regular season.
It will be an interesting game I'm sure.
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