Wonderful photos!! Makes me want to be there. The best kind of travel
photography.
Tina
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Wayne Harridge <
wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Great collection of images Nathan, including some wonderful portraits.
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> ...Wayne
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> Subject: [OM] IMG: Good Friday in Alicante
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> 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 Se ora de la Soledad, starting around 8:30 pm from one of
> the Alicante s two main churches, Bas lica 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 ide
> a of what it looks like in our part of Spain:
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> http://www.greatpix.eu/Viernes-Santo-2017/
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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