Monday, 6 April 2026

Chestnuts and churros

I finally finished the last few frames of the film (FP4) that had been lurking in my Yashica T4 since Faro, which seems a very long time ago now (it was last October) and, even better, I found some time to print some of them.  

At the entrance/exit to the big end-of-summer fair we had the chestnut-sellers:


All very makeshift - apart from maybe the lights everything else about their stall looked like it had been in use for a very long time.  We didn't buy, as we were saving our appetite for later but they did smell good.

Food was a big thing at the fair - 'farturas' are a Portuguese type of churro and were very popular:

Both prints on Fomabrom112.

Not much else to report from The Liberties, except to say it is awfully cold right now.  The place is heaving with tourists for Easter weekend - I read that the seaside towns of Portstewart and Portrush, just down the road from us, were log-jammed with cars yesterday and today.  The 'car cruise' scene is a big thing over Easter - young people come from all over Ireland (and Scotland) to show off their motors and try to avoid getting pulled over by the local police for minor infringements.  If I had the energy/interest to spend an hour in the traffic to go about a mile it might well be worth wasting some film on, but I decided to pass.



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