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To: Cardhu

I enjoyed your walk along the Ria de Ares-Betanzos. (I’d also have a beer if it weren’t so early here.) Living in New York, I noticed first the absence of crowds, then the intelligent and cultured development of the waterfront. At the end of the PPS show, what battle did the metal bas-relief depict? Curious.


2,385 posted on 04/28/2008 5:31:07 AM PDT by OESY
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To: OESY

Actually that walk started in the Ria de La Coruña and went around to Riazor which faces the Bay of Biscay. The Rias of Ares and Betanzos are away over the other side.

Those plaques are at the base of the statue to Maria Pita the heroine who save the city from the Francis Drake and attacking English in 1589. She is suppose to have seized the gun of her dead husband and fought the English capturing their standard. Of course, a year earlier the Spanish had sent their Armada against the English so they really cannot claim victim-hood.


2,388 posted on 04/28/2008 7:37:25 AM PDT by Cardhu (Be happy, today you will be the youngest you will ever be.)
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To: OESY; Cardhu

I also noticed the lack of pedestrians when I first saw the Presentation at Dimensional Doors. IIRC, Cardi told us that it was a weekend. I could be wrong, though. Cardhu?


2,391 posted on 04/28/2008 8:29:55 AM PDT by yorkie (God Bless our Heroes in Iraq and around the world)
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