Little rain in Spain

[rumint]

Ok, this blog is now officially my travel blog, since I don't seem to blog anything else, twitter having successfully assumed the coveted role of repository of my less memorable thoughts and memes I feel compelled to spread

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[pinkthulhu]

Yeah, the late dinners took some getting used to in Seville. Nothing really got busy before 10pm, by which time I was starving!

[pinkthulhu]

The thing about Charles V's armour collection sounds interesting too. I guess personal armour reached its zenith around the early 1500s, before guns became really efficient at cutting through it.

Charles' contemporary, Maximilian I, the Holy Roman Emperor, also had an obsession with armour, and gave Henry VIII the famous jousting helmet complete with eye-glasses and etched stubble, based on Maximilian himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_armour