Weird things we saw today

All travel involves immersion in different cultures. Today we saw a number of things that, from our perspective, were just weird.

Number one: amazing metal hammered reliefs and carvings in the Cathedrals of Porto. However at the Last Supper it seems the meal was, umm, a puppydog? Maybe this means something? Bad artistry?

Number two: From Fatima, we are used to the rather physical votive candles: the assorted weird limbs, babies, severed breasts but a soccer ball?! You really think Jesus is taking time away from preventing earthquakes or saving drowning people to make your soccer team win?

Number three: Saint Nicholas the Patron Saint of children: three kids were kidnapped and beheaded and stuffed inside a barrel. Then Saint Nicholas went and prayed for them and they sprang resurrected from "a pickle barrel".

Number four: the saint that got all their teeth pulled out. She stands waving a big pair of plyers with a big, gross bloody tooth in the tongs. Patron saint of toothaches and those without dental care.

I think that's one important Saint.

Number Five: absolutely disgraceful behavior of Glasgow football fans last night. They took over the Ribera pier: preparation for the game against Braga.

Probably a thousand tanked Glaswegians, smashing glasses, bottles, chanting and puking and pissing everywhere.

They were so bold they actually broke open a water main and had it flowing down towards the river so they could have an active toilet /vomiting area in a small street next to the square to purge;  "have a slash" and resume the festivities.

Number six: normalize the worst.
































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