Today, it has been a very special day. My cousin Cristina’s wedding. Of all my cousins, she was the first to have a wedding (my cousin Jorge had gotten married first, but civilly without any type of ceremony or celebration). It was in the church of San Juan Bautista de Marchena:
It has been an incredible wedding. Now it’s time to rest, my body is destroyed after many hours of dancing.
As an anniversary of the day completely unrelated to the above, today marks exactly 530 years since Christopher Columbus landed on a Caribbean island and named it Guadalupe, in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Cáceres (Extremadura, Spain).
All documentation, including the ship’s logs and personal diaries of Christopher Columbus, are preserved in Seville in the Archive of the Indies building. Right next door, in the cathedral, his mortal remains lie in an impressive tomb:
The current Miss Universe Spain is Andrea Valero, from Galicia. The contest was set in Saint Augustine square in Los Realejos, Tenerife (Spain) the 30th of July, 2025.
Previous Miss Universe Spain
Miss Universe Spain 2024 was Michelle Jiménez, from Balearic Islands.
Miss Universe Spain 2023 was Athenea Pérez Nsué, the first black Miss Spain, daughter of an immigrant single mother.
Miss Universe Spain 2022: Alicia Faubel, from the Valencian Community, is the Spanish representative who participated in the Miss Universe edition that was held on January 14, 2023 in New Orleans, United States.
Miss Universe Spain 2021: Sarah Loinaz was the chosen one. Daughter of a Moroccan mother and a Basque father.
Miss Universe Spain 2020: Andrea Martinez, from León. She participated in the contest held in Hollywood Florida (the other Hollywood), United States.
(This entry has been edited as it received many international visits from people looking to find out who the current Miss Universe Spain was, but it contained outdated information.)
How the 2010 South Africa World Cup victory was celebrated here in Marchena
For the 2026 World Cup final, fences were set up around the Constitution Fountain (known as ‘fountain of the kid’) to prevent ‘vandalism’. When I saw this, I told myself I would post the photos from when we won the South Africa World Cup in 2010, so everyone could see how it was celebrated back then. Winning our first World Cup was an unprecedented, historic moment, and absolute madness broke out.
The fake trophy you see in the photos was made by my friend Manu and me.
