Fiesta Siesta

It's fiesta time again in the locality. At least I've got 10 days to prepare my senses before the fiesta in my pueblo starts. In the meantime the rockets and fireworks are still a distant noise. I do enjoy fiesta week but it does mean I have to shift my routine. Although the Spanish are well known for their late night partying fiesta week adds a whole new dimension to late night, it's more early morning. As such I have to take in longer siestas during the day. Shouldn't be too difficult should it?

Factoid: No nation on earth is quite as good at enjoying itself as Spain. There are so many fiestas that even if you could attend more than one a day you would not be able to see them all in a single lifetime. Fiestas symbolise the very essence of Spain and the Spanish people. They’re colourful, vibrant, usually extremely noisy, often chaotic and always great fun. The origins of many of the country’s countless fiestas lie in religious feasts, often honouring a patron saint. It’s the same in northern Europe where many public holidays were born out of religious “holy days”. But northern Europe simply can’t compete with Spain when it comes to turning a religious celebration into a riotous round-the-clock knees up. Perhaps it’s the warm weather or maybe it’s the exuberant, uninhibited nature of the Spaniards who just love to party. One thing’s for certain: when it’s fiesta time, no-one does it better than the Spanish!