Hitesh Sawlani Photography

You may have noticed I’ve been posting quite regularly lately… the reason is I have a huge backlog of images I haven’t uploaded yet and would like to zero it before 2010 so I can do my anual review and start the year fresh. The following set of images… are from the Easter procession in Toledo on “Maundy Thursday” (Jueves Santo in Spanish).

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Whilst walking down a random street of Toledo (Spain) we encountered a run down abandoned house which for some reason reminded me of a cartoon I used to watch as a kid in which a bunch of musician animals lived together in a run down house/farm of some sort (Check it out ).

I took these photos back in April (but kind of forgot to upload the full set and blog about it). It’s entirely possible the house is still there, just as we left it… or it could have been torn down to make way for a new construction – I don’t think I’ll ever find out since I wasn’t sure where it was and my GPS wasn’t turned on at the moment.

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Once the capital of Spain, now just a massive tourist site.

As with last year, Scott Kelby organised a world wide photowalk (See 2008’s Edition) This year, not only did I participate in Madrid’s photowalk (again) but I participated in Guadalajara’s photowalk as well (About 60km away from Madrid) ! Seeing how one was in the morning and the other in the evening I figured, why not?

I have to say though, the turnout in Madrid’s event was a bit disappointing, although all of the slots were booked only about a half turned up, of which 4 hadn’t really signed up. Very different from last year in which many more people turned up than the 50 who signed up. Guadalajara’s photowalk had a similar turnout, but it seems that everyone who signed up did show up.

In any case, it was an enjoyable day spent with many familiar faces (in the Madrid one) as we tend to photowalk every other weekend anyway, just not in such large groups.

Click here for the full set of Guadalajara photos

Click here for the full set of Madrid photos

And to see the photos on a map, click here. (Be sure to zoom out to see both cities).

Guadalajara

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“En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme…” are the first few words of the most famous of spanish literary works; the “Quixote” written by Cervantes.

The story mentions a place with endless windmills in “La Mancha”, now the region known as “Castilla La Mancha” where many traditional windmills can still be found across the countryside and built on the outskirts of many little towns hoping to catch the attention of the never ending stream of buses full of tourists from across Europe.

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