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overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 1d

Salamanca (again) 🇪🇸✨

Our last full day — and Stuart’s dream: convent day!

🕍 Convento de San Esteban — stunning façade + nun-bot chat 🤖🙏

🍬 Convento de las Dueñas — peaceful cloister & handmade sweets (cash only!)

Perfect end to the #GoldenCity.

#SpainTravel #SalamancaSpain #VisitSpain

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overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 2d

vila 🇪🇸✨
Day trip with Stuart to one of Spain’s great walled cities.
The #MedievalWalls gave sweeping views of Castile’s plains 🏰, and #CathedralofÁvila - Spain’s first #GothicCathedral - shone with red & white granite columns & stained-glass light. Awesome.

#SpainTravel #CastillaYLeón

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 3d

Day trip to beautiful #Segovia 🇪🇸 with Stuart.
Roman aqueduct ✔️ Gothic cathedral ✔️ Alcázar castle ✔️
A perfect snapshot of classic Spain. ✨
#SpainTravel #CastileAndLeón #TravelCouple

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 4d

Salamanca 🇪🇸✨ What a city! Cobbled streets, Gothic cathedrals, sandstone glow, endless towers + views.
Today: #PlazaMayor, #CasaDeLasConchas, #UniversidadDeSalamanca 🐸, #Cathedral, #IeronimusTowers + more.
Golden light, tapas, perfection. 💛 #SalamancaSpain #Travel

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 5d

Valladolid 🇪🇸✨…

A perfect 4-hr #Valladolid walk: peacocks in Campo Grande 🦚, Gothic arches at San Pablo ⛪ & the grand Cathedral 🏛️.
Easy, scenic, and full of #Spain charm 🇪🇸📸
#VisitValladolid #TravelSpain #CityWalks

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 5d

It turns out Spanish Bank Holiday trains are as late and unreliable as British ones! 😂

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 6d

Fiesta Nacional de España 🇪🇸✨
Celebrating Spain’s National Day — a parade, flags, tapas & vino 🍷 with Stuart, cheering on nuestros valientes muchachos! 🚔
Walked it all off by the Bernesga River. Halfway through our 🇪🇸 trip & loving it!

#FiestaNacionalDeEspaña #VivaEspaña

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 7d

Train to #Oviedo, capital of #Asturias

Loved wandering charming old quarter, lively market, & visiting Gothic #CathedralOfSanSalvador

Real star? The cider 🍎🍏🍺 — cloudy, scrumpy-style fermentation perfect with some tasty #tapas

#SpanishCider #NorthernSpain #AsturianCider

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 7d

Morning everyone 🙂

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 8d

Astorga 🇪🇸✨…

Stuart & I had a lovely trip to charming Spanish town of #Astorga today.

A stunning Cathedral and an equally incredible Episcopal Palace designed by Gaudí — both absolutely breathtaking!

#SpainTravel #CastillaYLeón #GaudíArchitecture #HiddenGems #AstorgaSpain

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 9d

East to #León — one of the top starting points of #ElCaminoDeSantiago 🥾 Stunning cathedral (that glass!), San Isidoro’s royal pantheon (Sistine Chapel vibes), and Gaudí’s Casa Botines 🐉 Beautiful city, cheap beer 🍺 #Spain #Travel @Spain

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 10d

Anatomy of songs.

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 11d

Bit of rest day - took in museum (thank you David for steer to museum of Galician culture & Baroque triple spiral staircase), did some souveniring, & sat in a cafe then bar to watch El Camino trekking world go by.
@MuseoPoboGalego
#SantiagoDeCompostela #Galicia #SpainTravel

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 12d

A Coruña…
Blazing sun, cold beer, & miles of seafront perfection 🌊☀️🍺. Climbed @UNESCO-listed Tower of Hercules, toasted María Pita in her square, & side-eyed San Antón Castle.
A Coruña’s got ancient vibes & modern thirst. #ACoruña #Spain #Travel #Galicia

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 13d

Made it to Santiago de Compostela! 🙌 All those steps (ok, just from the station 😅). Great town, great food, great beer 🍻 And the cathedral roof climb? 194 steps of wow. #SantiagoDeCompostela #SpainTravel #CaminoDeSantiago

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 14d

The Magnetic Fields seminal album 69 Love Songs @ The Union Chapel @UnionChapelUK in glitzy Islington by @themagfields and @stephinmerritt

Two nights. Sixty nine songs. One baritone that sounds like the devil singing karaoke in a library.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 15d

My life has changed, in oh so many ways.

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 16d

Arsenal 🔴⚪️ 2 - 0 Olympiacos…

12’ Martinelli (@gabimartinelli) reacts fastest after Gyökeres’ effort hits the post
90+’ Saka (@bukayosaka87) squeezes one past Tzolakis

Arteta (@mikelarteta) makes 6 changes, squad depth shines.
2/2 in the #UCL group stage ✅

@Arsenal #ARSOLY

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 16d

This looks good. An unexpected romantic comedy. Harry Melling (yes, Harry Potter’s Dudley) as a young gay man and Alexander Skarsgård as a biker gang leader who start a BDSM relationship.

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PILLION Trailer (2025) Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgård

YouTube video by ONE Media Coverage

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overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 17d

Low autumnal sun in Highbury Fields is one of my joys.

#highburyfields
#highbury
#islington
#highburyandislington
#london
#northlondon
#londonlife
#londonparks
@highbury_fields
@FieldsHighbury

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 18d

Great day out with Bryn! Thank you my lovely ❤️

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 19d

News just in: Nobody in Britain can believe it’s nearly October.

overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 20d

So Stuart and I have been busy today; turning fruits of our early autumnal foraging into sloe gin, apple sauce, pear sauce, and lots and lots of yummy quince jelly. 😋

#Foraging #Homemade #AutumnHarvest #Preserves #SloeGin #AppleSauce #PearSauce #QuinceJelly #SeasonalCooking

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overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 22d

When I was a 6 year old I first heard this song. I never thought this day would come. But here we are. 😆

The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four (Official Video) youtu.be/wUDRIC5RSX4?... via @YouTube

The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four (Official Video)

YouTube video by TheFreddyShow

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overyourhead.bsky.social @overyourhead.bsky.social · 23d

Port Vale 0 - 2 Arsenal

Eberechi Eze scores his first @Arsenal goal!
The £60m signing struck early vs Port Vale in the Carabao Cup.

Leandro Trossard added a late goal to seal it.
Next up: Brighton at the Emirates. #CarabaoCup

@Arsenal
@Regenersaurus
#COYG
#PVLARS
@gaygooners