June is Bustin' out All Over!
(With apologies to Rodgers & Hammerstein) What the heck? It's already summer! The month of June started off with the Democrats Abroad "Yes. We. Vote" Scavenger Hunt, which I helped organize. We created it as a short (~2km) walk around the oldest part of the city, where the resistance to Franco and the Spanish Civil War was both overt and covert, and very active. We aligned it with resistance to the Orange Menace in the States. The teams looked for banned books at the Anarchist Bookstore; danced the Cotton-Eyed-Joe at Plaza Universitat; redacted a quote from tRump to make it truthful; and looked for Americans on the streets to remind them to register to vote. We all learned a lot about Spanish history, and then we had lunch at the rooftop restaurant at El Corte Ingles. We were a little worried about the crowds that week, because Pope Leo came to town on June 9-10-11 to bless the new cross that was placed on top of Sagrada Familia , and comme...