{"id":2840,"date":"2018-06-20T16:14:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T23:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2019-03-01T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T00:58:09","slug":"sitges-the-people-in-the-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/sitges-the-people-in-the-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitges \u2013 The People in the Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I wasn\u2019t going to do another post on this beach resort town, but we went for a wander on the Friday before we leave Spain and\u2026remember the last post where I mentioned the \u2018Carnaval\u2019 that is here every year.\u00a0 Well, that was in February, so I am not writing about that. However, we did run smack into\u2026Gay Pride week.\u00a0 It started yesterday and runs until Monday with the big parade happening on Sunday.\u00a0 Not sure if we are going to this but it might be fun, so we\u2019ll see.\u00a0 We did get some pictures though and I thought I should write something to showcase the photos.<\/p>\n

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Most places have a Pride day with a parade.\u00a0 Sitges has a Pride week and along with the \u2018carnaval\u2019 this must be the gay capital of Spain.\u00a0 Sunday\u2019s event promises 20,000 people (this is a small town) and some 2000+ party events with tribute bands for ABBA, Boney-M, Michael Jackson, Prince, Shakira, and Madonna. \u00a0It\u2019s all just another reason to\u2026what was that quote?…..have a booze-soaked riot<\/em>. \u00a0Sitges seems to do that quite well.\u00a0 Whether you are into this scene or not won\u2019t matter much.\u00a0 If you are here, the steamroller is coming.\u00a0 It will be loud, proud, and I\u2019m guessin\u2019, very \u2018flamboyant\u2019.<\/p>\n

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So, we did go to the parade on Sunday.\u00a0 What else are ya gonna do on your last day in Europe.\u00a0 We have lots of pictures.\u00a0 Teresa got a front row seat and you know\u2026.it was as predicted.\u00a0 Flamboyant.\u00a0 They certainly know how to party.\u00a0 It really was a lot of fun.\u00a0 Our hosts told us that Sitges competes with Frankfurt for the gay title of Europe.\u00a0 Good to know.\u00a0 I can\u2019t really begin to describe any of this, so the photos will have to do.\u00a0 Self explanatory really.<\/p>\n

The parties run all night here but it\u2019s not our thing and since we\u2019re \u2018old\u2019, we retired early.\u00a0 Thank God we weren\u2019t staying right in town.\u00a0 But it was a riot, booze soaked or not.<\/p>\n

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I wasn\u2019t going to do another post on this beach resort town, but we went for a wander on the Friday before we leave Spain and\u2026remember the last post where I mentioned the \u2018Carnaval\u2019 that is here every year.\u00a0 Well, that was in February, so I am not writing about that. However, we did run smack into\u2026Gay Pride week.\u00a0 It started yesterday and runs until Monday with the big parade happening on Sunday.\u00a0 Not sure if we are going to this but it might be fun, so we\u2019ll see.\u00a0 We did get some pictures though and I thought I should write something to showcase the photos. Most places have a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4236,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/4236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}