Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Shutters

August is a traditional vacation time for Spaniards (really most of Europe). Sevilla is a net exporter of vacationers at this point (i.e. more people leave Sevilla for their vacations then come to Sevilla for their vacations). Shopkeepers also hit the road at this time. For example:
Rolled down shutters were definitely more common as we walked around town today. An interesting tradition among shopkeepers is to paint their shutters with some representation of the shop. In honor of the August vacations and the closed shops, here is a collection of some paintings that I saw on closed shop shutters.

I don't know what kind of shop this was, but it had lovely scenes from around Seville painted on its three shutters:


 This is the shutter of a "gift shop for men":
 The shutter of a photocopy and office supply shop:
 A produce stand:
 A pharmacy. This one I really don't get. It's like the Caduceus, but around a martini glass and then pills. What's the message here? Or am I just supposed to laugh. I'm kinda laughing:
 I think this is an office furniture place:
 A luthier shop:
 A hardware store, not sure why the venus is there, but maybe offering to fix the missing head and arms?
 A bakery, pretty much nailed that:

Two last items, we received our bike share cards in the mail today. Not sure of their practical value, since we've both already memorized our access numbers. But, it's nice to have something official I guess.
And, I liked this selfie that I took while taking pictures of store fronts today:
Goodnight.



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