Damp day delights dolphin

One of my two daily routes to the office passes this point. The dolphin is a left over adornment from the barrio's annual fiestas that took place nearly two months ago.

The festival committee was recently re-invigorated by a new young generation of locals taking it over. They did a great job of decoration the barrio this year, even fixing notes to everyone's front door asking residents to decorate their balconies if they could.

At the end of the fiestas they took most of the decorations down, but the dolphin remained. It's surviving the autumn wind and rain remarkably well, considering that it's probably made largely of papier-mâché.

For anyone with a spattering of Spanish. the colourful university residence building on the left is not supposed to say "Rio Cimadevilla' on the sign, there is no such river. It should say "Barrio Cimadevilla" but part of the sign blew off a couple of nights ago. I told a tale a while back, here about how the orange building next door to it collapsed.

The annual fiesta is in joint honour of 'la Virgen de Los Remedios' (extra photo) and 'la Virgen de la Soledad'. They have their respective chapels at either end of the barrio.