Colouring Easter eggs on the deck of our apartment in Acequias in order to properly welcome the Easter Bunny to Spain.
Climbing trees in the backyard.
Climbing to the Alhambra via an alternate route.
The Alhambra from a southern hill.
An old gate to the fort.
A man playing the Hang
An excellent likeness!
A ditch to leap over!
A parade begins. There are about five or six parades per night in Granada during Semana Santa, each following a separate route and put on by a different 'brotherhood'. We'd planned on watching an early parade, then heading home. Fortunately two parades were going by our parkade and blocked our exit.
The beginning of another parade put on by the Juventud del Rosario.
The parade includes children.
I guess it's hard to see through the eye-holes.
the candles are regularly cleaned of wax.
Children wander around with candies to restore the penitents (under the hoods).
The penitents move very slowly, moving on a route through the city until about 4 am.
The first of two floats in this parade (a Roman, Jesus, and an Apostle).
The Roman
Jesus
The band that follows the float.
The beginning of part two of this brotherhood's parade. Part one took about one hour to pass.
Small boys collect the wax drippings into small wax-balls.
Intensity
The women carrying the candles were generally in very thin clothes and high-heels on the cobblestones. Most of them were shivering by 10 pm when we saw them. They still had six hours to go.
The second float approaches the entrance to our parkade.
Censer-swinger
The second float: Mary.
The censer-swinger II.
Mary
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