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Apparently the good people of Salzburg once foiled their enemy by painting a single cow a different color each day. The enemy believed that they had so many cows that there was no way to starve them out of the fortress so they gave up.
A trip to Margam Park on bank holiday Monday was an excuse to take a bunch of images of the second world war re-enactors with the sole intention of producing b+w and sepia tinted final versions. Here one of the well drilled German soldiers takes aim at a resistance fighter, or maybe a yank...
As far as I could tell, Monte Urgull is a layer cake of old fortresses all built on top of each other. All of the carefully designed multi-lingual signage had been carefully vandalized by extremely meticulous graffitos. Every scap of text on the mountain had been rubbed out or painted over, except for anything written in Euskara, the Basque Language.
I was mystified by this little blockhouse. What was it for? Munitions storage? Last refuge? Either way it was a great thing to climb & look out over the sea below.