El Dos De Mayo....La Batalla De Los Mamelucos

El Dos De Mayo....La Batalla De Los Mamelucos An odd and disjointed event celebrated yesterday in the Plaza Mayor. Playing the part of Napoleon's Mameluke cavalry we had Les Musiciens du Nil. I once saw them on a Thames river boat, which seems a bit more appropriate given that their name comes from a river. I suppose that getting a boat to even float on Madrid's river might have been beyond the technical resources of the organisers. We had horses that walked (briefly) on their hind legs.

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