Belated Reyes post

Lavapies graffiti

Mercado San Miguel decorations

Roscon de los Reyes

Cabalgata de Reyes Magos

Cabalgata de Reyes Magos

People bring umbrellas to catch the sweets that get thrown from the parade floats

and step ladders to see

and the well known ducks (?!) from the story of christmas (hmm must research spanish christmas myths)

Misspellings Madrid style

Hiya Starbucks

Christmas is a coming!!

Tree in Sol. Design by Agatha Ruiz de La Prada. Awesome.

Cortylandia (the back of Corte Inglés off Sol).

It's the Spanish Brown Thomas Christmas windows (circa my youth when they were awesome), the British Harrods windows (Peter Pan this year, saw them a few weeks ago - v good) etc etc etc...

This year the animated figuirines seem to want to teach everyone about acceptance of dodgy accents.... Fortunately there wasn't an Irish figuirine :)