This morning I came across some imagery that will stay with me forever.Most mornings I drive to the post office in a small town called Padul. Today, like every other day I turned off the main road into the town centre and then boom!!!
I thought I had driven into a disaster area, a bomb or perhaps a gasoline tanker explosion. If this was indeed a disaster, the locals were behaving very calmly just like any normal day, except people were dragging what appeared to be bunches of wood.
I parked the car and discovered I was in the middle of the second weirdest fiesta I've ever witnessed (see below for the weirdest). The bunches of wood that everyone carried were in fact rosemary, which grows in abundance in this part of Spain. The huge bunches of rosamary were stacked up high - then massive fires were lit in the middle of the streets, all over the town. As you can see some of the fires are big and fierce and as one dies down another will be lit just down the road. Today is a blustery day, and the smoke and fire was being blown every which way! People stood in groups watching and chatting. And that smoke, like a London fog with perfume. I love it, and long may it continue.
Unfortunately, the post office was closed for the fiesta...........but tomorrow I shall try and find out from the friendly man who works there what this local fiesta was all about!
Plaza in the town centre 
The fires
The fireworks
Life size doll
Lunch
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