Archive for the ‘Sanlucar de Barrameda’ Category

Spanish Easter: Semana Santa

April 12th, 2009 at 11:25 pm » Comments (10)

Remember last year when we were celebrating Semana Santa in Sanlúcar, the Spanish Easter celebration? If not, click on the link above and read more – it’s truly fascinating, the way the celebrate it! Since we didn’t have time to sort the photos properly back then, I just uploaded a few of them taken with [...]

Sanlucar beach horse races

March 26th, 2009 at 11:46 pm » Comments (10)

Sanlúcar de Barrameda in the Cádiz province in Andalusia, Spain, hosts some of the oldest horse races in Europe: Carreras de Caballos, which also were the first regulated horse races in Spain. [wp_geo_map] It started as early as in 1845 (!) with informal competitions that were organized by the owners of the horses carrying the [...]

Ride thru blue without queue

March 19th, 2009 at 11:36 pm » Comments (11)

Feeling thirsty? Stop at the kiosk as this rider did in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain, last year when we were there. Come back here for the rest of the amigos – not only drinks – in a day or two. Lifecruiser ♥ Spanish horses