Asunción Maria is usually celebrated on the nearest Saturday - at least since we've been part of Yator's celebrations - but this year every pueblo in the Alpujarras has celebrated over the whole weekend. Fireworks, music, food and drink and probably a lot more as well......
About 1pm the first fireworks started, rockets really, just to let people know that it's time to set off to their pueblo and get ready for lunch. Later on in the evening, more rockets signalling the next round of festivities, and then the music starts. We both woke up in the night as cars passed by - we don't normally have cars going up or down at night, only people coming up during the day to work their land. And we think - although we were both half asleep - that music was still drifting up from Yator at 6 am.
Is there a "happy fund" somewhere funding this, so people don't realise how bad 'el crisis' is?? When they wake up after the weekend fiesta, they feel so tired they forget they have no job to go to?
Just a thought!
Monday 16 August 2010
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