Since the weather was nice and hot today, some of my Conquistadores - stationed in the Americas of the 16th century - decided to leave their fortifications and go explore the neighbourhood, in search for gold and glory ...
After a long and difficult journey of several
weeks...humm...hours
through the dense jungle, in which they were quickly decimated by poisinous arrows during attacks by sneaky native tribes, by the most horrible diseases, by lack of food and by contaminated water, a small remaining group was still heading towards their goal ("let's move forward" their motto was
)...
A goal that most of them thought only existed in the mind of "Don Franco de Benidorm", a Spanish nobleman who used to run taverns for elderly tourists in Spain, and who sailed to the New World to make (even more) fortune...
In the middle of the pic, you see the Don's loyal righthand, Capitan Fernando Tabasco...