Saturday, July 12, 2008

Our Lady of the Peep Show

In the evening in one of the towns we were taking a walk along the water and there was this small building all lit up that everyone was walking to to take a look at what was inside. It was this statue of Mary that we thought must have been a memorial of some kind. After looking into the windows to see what it was and trying to read the sign, the person I was with who also didn’t speak Spanish turned to two gentlemen who were standing behind us waiting to take their turn to look and she asked them if they spoke Spanish, hoping they could interpret the meaning. No, instead their accents gave them away as Brits, and with money in their hands they said, “We saw people walking over here with coins looking through the windows, so we thought it must be a naked woman over here”. We had a good laugh knowing how disappointed they were going to be to instead see a religious icon.

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