Fiesta update

It was a sunny but breezy day, unfortunately the wind was from the North so we were a little exposed up at the Ermita. But a good time was had by all, we eventually came back home with friends for hot food and cold drinks, others went for drinks at Paco's cortijo - we saw him yesterday in Yator and he was suffering somewhat with a sore head and was off to have some manzanilla tea.

But to go back a day - the previous afternoon a car passed by and didn't come back. This normally means that it's got stuck on the track, last week one was towed back up by a recovery truck, even though a neighbour tried to stop the car from going on towards Yator it carried on and then had to call for assistance. 4x4's don't have a problem reversing up from the collapsed section but cars do. Anyway, when the car didn't reappear I went to check all was ok, and saw a JCB cleaning the pista. He worked until nearly 9pm then finished it the next morning just before the fiesta traffic started. It's now super smooth - more like an autovia then anything we've had recently!!





So here is Santa Fatima, out of the Ermita, decorated and being carried (I was going to put being processed but that sounds rather like a cheese) but she is carried in a procession around the cortijada of Montenegro after the service.