Well, it could be a Star Wars episode. Darth Vader and the Imperial storm troopers certainly wouldn’t be too out of place in the street festivities. Yes, it’s Holy Week again here in Spain and the hooded hordes are everywhere. It’s a big deal in Southern Spain over Easter as we saw last year in Granada, Cordoba, and Seville and Jerez is no exception. The parades, put on by the many brotherhoods, wind through the narrow streets and the cacophony of the beating drums can be heard for miles. Today is Easter Sunday and we should give thanks, mostly for the fact that the Klan competition is over. On Good Friday, they were out on our street at 2am. Who puts on parades at 2 in the morning?
The last few days in Lagos were a little cooler with some showers and that seem to have followed us to Spain. Jerez is just over the Portuguese/Spanish border and is almost an extension of the Algarve region being only a couple of hundred kilometers east of Lagos. It’s also further south so we are expecting temperatures nearer 28 by the middle of next week. As with Lisbon, having been here before, it’s much easier to get around as we seem to know where everything is and we don’t really get lost much anymore. I wrote a fair bit about this place last year and not much has changed. There is a major horse festival (Feria de Caballo) during the last week we are here. It looks like a cross between the PNE and Horse showing/Flamenco Dancing/Sherry drinking Spanish-party thing. Should be a riot. So, there will be more to write about then and lots of opportunities for great photos.
In the meantime, enjoy these photos. We still like it here!
