We had a few days in Cadiz a couple of weeks ago. I am still trying to
reconcile the fact that the city just closed down from 1pm to 5pm
....offices, gas stations, big and small retail, services, hotels' front
offices, ice cream parlors, restaurants, tourist offices, supermercados,
wine shops, tourist destinations, you name it they just closed down,
even street vendors selling leather bags and trinkets. By 5pm the
restaurants and eateries were coming to life but the other
establishments had done for the day. Where I live these places would
have all been touting for business up to 6pm without having been closed
down for half of the the normal business day. It's a different pace of
life, and a way slower pace of life, on the Iberian peninsula :-)
On 4/15/2017 3:43 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
I apologise if I am spamming you with images, but it has just been a photographically rich
couple of weeks. Easter is a big deal here in Spain, for many reasons: several days off (Friday
and Monday are holidays here), the traditional onset of beach weather in this part of the
country, and of course the religious significance. There are processions every day beginning
with Palm Sunday and ending Easter Sunday. In previous years, I have gone to the grand finale on
Sunday, but this year I decided to go to the Good Friday procession which tends to me more
somber than the Sunday one. There were actually four different processions yesterday. The one I
chose was Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, starting around 8:30 pm from one of the
Alicante’s two main churches, Basílica de Santa Maria, and lasting for 3 hours or
so. I just hung around for the beginning, and the passage through a cozy little square a couple
of hundred metres down the road. This little gallery of 33 images will give you an idea of what
it looks like in our part of Spain:
http://www.greatpix.eu/Viernes-Santo-2017/
I always find it deliciously ironic that I, an agnostic Jew, go to see these
processions every year while my Catholic wife stays at home—she dislikes big
crowds.
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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