😁 It was more the NOISE that got to me yesterday. My hobby is noisy! 🤣

*nods*

I want you to all sit down for this, but I think I had too much flamenco today.

😁 I am clean!

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Good point! ☺️

I really need a shower, but I spent three hours deep-cleaning the bathroom yesterday, ready for a visitor, and it's looking pristine.

Dirty Sarah or dirty bathroom? Vote now!

A very boaty boat on water. The sun rising. Blue sky. Orange sunrise. Glistening water. Nice.

'Twas lovely down the Bay first thing. The sort of day that makes me delighted to live in Cardiff.

I was raised Welsh Presbyterian. No fancy anything allowed. So even CofE is super flamboyant to me. Bosch? Nuts! (I did buy the Prado's fridge magnet of Goya's Saturn devouring his sun, though. For kicks!)

Glad you enjoyed Prado. 🎨

The top of one of the giant carriage things carried by men during Semana Santa. It depicts a Roman guard taunting Christ and the guard's face is full on scary.

A Semana Santa outfit, a mannequin beneath the capirote. Its eyes were bloody following me.

Found the best museum in Bilbao, Museo de Pasos de Semana Santa. Was low-grade freaked out the entire time I was in there. Alone.

Recall feeling similarly when witnessing two Semana Santa processions in Andalucia two decades ago.

A croquetta de bacalo on a plate, with a Basque flag on top. In the background is pretty Bilbao architecture and blue sky. Happy times.

Having a proudly Basque fishcake for my second breakfast.

That move would put my hip out these days.

Indeed!

Sign showing a stick figure falling off some ramparts.

Sign talking about cat control. I think. Don't feed the cats! I saw no cats, so this sign is doing its job.

Wooden religious statue depicting Mary and the baby Jesus. Both look quite happy, rather than holy.

Today was a 10 hour guided coach trip to San Sebastian and some other places I've already forgotten the names of.

Here are two signs and a Mary/Jesus statue I enjoyed.

I did not expect it to be surrounded by buildings!

I only went on the gondola. I'm terrible with heights, so no way was I going to the top walkway. It was pretty cool, yes. There's one in Newport, not too far from Cardiff... so that's my local one. It's good to have local transporter bridges!

A plant resembling an orgy of octopuses.

Today I've travelled by (in order of preference) transporter bridge, local bus, tram, funicular, foot and metro (train-y, sometimes underground thing).

Here's a photo of a weird plant I saw.

In the middle distance, Gehry's Guggenheim, in Bilbao. Viewed from the open window of room 32, Hotel Miró.

Tempted to stay in my hotel room all day and just stare at this beauty.

Clever Jaf is clever.

That was pretty special. I experienced different emotions in each piece, which I can't explain, other than, well... art! Very glad you mentioned it, as I went there first, before I was weary from a long day.

The Guggenheim in Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry. Seen through a sparsely-leafed tree. From a third floor hotel room.

Acceptable view from my accidentally posh hotel room.

How do I know it's posh? I dumped my bag and coat there on arrival in the city. When I returned to claim my room, they remembered my name, plus my bag and coat were already in my room.

Yeah. It likely would've ended up showing all the West End stuff we get at WMC anyway, just to keep afloat, but it would've done so whilst being interesting.

Oooo, that sounds interesting.

Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay. By Jonathan Adams. The photo shows a gleaming exterior and a blue sky. It was hailing 20 mins before this photo was taken. Weird weather.

I'm off to Bilbao tomorrow. To look at Gehry's Guggenheim. I'm going there only because of that one building.

I walked past Adam's Wales Millennium Centre earlier. It's fine, uses local materials well and is functional, but it's no Hadid. People would've travelled for Hadid. As I am for Gehry.

Oh. I thought I saw some in Cardiff Bay this morning. Maybe they were house martins. Bah. How common.

A coot sits in an impressively large nest, surrounded by reedy things.

Blustery walk around Cardiff's wetlands. Heard warblers, watched swifts, saw a seagull attacking a bloody huge grey heron. Here's a nesting coot.

Blimey. (I don't think you're old enough to be asking random people in the street for help, though.)

Ludicrous non-standard technology. Bah.

Easter weekend I was at a flamenco workshop with Marco Flores. He's a BIG deal in flamenco. On the Monday he had me demonstrate part of his choreography, danced as a couple, WITH him. I'm still buzzy about it.

It would be like Clapton duetting with a random bloke. Mad.

Anyway, here's to joy! 💃

An orange sun rises in an orange sky. A seagull, perched on a fence is silhouetted against the sky.

The sun rises, its rays extending, tendril-like, across estuary water. A group of swans (I think) flies across the sky.

A lovely morning in Cardiff.