Monday, November 2, 2009

Correos boxes

Yesterday I went to a little junk sale in the Sierra Nevada mountains. There were a couple of trendy sellers who had just moved from Ibiza and were selling an enormous pile of clothes. I picked up a fleece jacket for 5 euros, for my skiing assignment later in the month. I'll have to live with the fact it's last years design. I also bought 2 self help books for 50 cents each. The books promise to make me wealthy and happier, so I'm looking forward to the new me.

While I was in the mountain villages I spotted a couple of old correos boxes, one of which is a beauty, which I share with you here:

Old correos box. Photograph by Tim Irving

This is the new style box, it will improve with age

It's a public holiday in Spain today and I'm off to find some racing cyclists to photograph. See you tomorrow.

3 comments:

  1. love good finds in unlikely places !

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  2. Love a junk sale. Most things about me are last year's design. Or the year before the year before the year before. . .

    (That first correos box is a beauty)

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  3. Sadly they have taken away so many of our post boxes, and now they are even thinking of having fewer delivery days as well...

    It is still amazing to me that you can place a stamp on a little piece of card with an address and it arrives (eventually) in one's mail box.

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