Pointy Penitents

Left Roquetas, heading for Cádiz, where Deb spent her Erasmus year. Extra looking towards the old town - the oldest continually inhabited city in W Europe, already 1,100 years old when Jesus was born.

Walking the narrow streets, surprised by the processions for Holy Week - apparently there are 52 floats during the week, all of them hundreds of years old, thousands of onlookers, hundreds of penitents, with their hats pointing to God, and their own faces hidden in humility. The float we saw was of Pilate washing his hands in a bowl held by a black slave, his pleading wife, soldiers, and Jesus, already beaten up, on a platform covered in gold, probably weighing around two thousand kilos, carried by around fifty men.

Mike has put the float and Gibraltar on his blip, so won't repeat here.

Gratefuls:
- the way Spaniards know how to celebrate
- surviving the Biennial, and now relaxing with family
- Deb finding us good places to eat