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Here we are on our first big outing of 2011....
this
was to the Festival of St Sebastion
in LUBRIN |
We
are ...ladies
wot lunch ! |
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Sue's says ...
someone has to do it
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JANUARY 20th
2011
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We set off to Lubrin on a crisp sunny morning in plenty of time
to attend the famous Festival del Pan (The Feast of bread) ...
Not knowing what to expect we arrived and settled in the main
square
to
have
a cup of coffee and to wait......
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There were lots of locals and visitors.....many of the locals
wearing Red scarves around their necks and wearing small rings
of bread tied with red ribbon and there was an atmosphere of
high expectation and high jinx with the local young men making
lots of good natured noise.......
They eventually set off towards the church to await the start of
the parade where Saint Sebastian, bedecked in many donut shaped
bread loaves, was to be slowly carried around the pueblo. |
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Looking around, locals were standing on their balconies, which
were draped with the Spanish and Almeria flags and they had
large sacks of bread donuts at the ready
- about the size of a small tea plate - which we found out were
to be hurled into the street as the procession passed.
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The band struck up with the anthem which had been chosen for
this year and the procession started to very slowly move off
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...and as it did
so many, many local young men and women jostled in front of
Saint Sebastion with the intention of hampering him from being
taken back to the church. |
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They are
then threaded onto strings which they carry around with them.
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It was very exciting to watch and although it seemed very
physical it was all good natured pushing and shoving and no
one got hurt. Even older men and women were also catching the
donuts.
You didn’t feel fearful of getting hurt and both Maggie and I
joined the procession around the pueblo once it had passed the
square. The band every now and then stopped playing the anthem
when all the young people in front would start shouting “Musica
Musica Musica” and the band would start again.
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Saint Sebastian eventually made it back to the safety of the
church and then everyone, young and old, met up in the square
where there were long trestle tables waiting for them to set up
their picnics.....
The bread is part of the picnic and is traditionally filled with
tuna and anchovies...... A good time was being had by all.
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For Maggie and I we had a tapas lunch bought from the local bar
but after about an hour it began to get quite cold so we
left..... leaving the revellers to carry on enjoying themselves
into the evening and night.
A large stage was being set up and it looked as though the
partying would continue for some time.
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For all of this, there were no Health and Safety officials
stopping the throwing of the bread rolls, there were only three
local police strolling around..... no crowd barriers...... and
NO TROUBLE.
Just lots of happy faces, lots of fun, lots of eating and
drinking and a great family (3 and 4 generations of a family
celebrating together) atmosphere.
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We
really enjoyed ourselves.
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o see more girls' outings
click
'GIRLS'
GETAWAYS'
and choose a day out !
see you there ...
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REMEMBER! To find
a DIARY MONTH from our Newsletters
and clips,
just click
DIARY DAYS IN SPAIN
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And see
more recipes at
MIKE'S
TAPAS BAR |
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keep watching ...
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