I’ll probably stay home and play with my elastic and avoid the crowds! And the HUGE winds that may not allow the fireworks tomorrow night. Hey, better for my ears….
Happy August 15th!!!
Well, there is a lot of hustle and bustle around here for the holiday of St. Vincent, patron saint of fishermen, for whom Collioure celebrates the middle of August (Ferragosto in Italy). So whichever town you are in, things are jumping.
Here there is a contest for little kids who try to stay on a greased pole that hangs out over the bay and they slide around, trying not to fall in!
Boat races, people on stilts, whatever they are, fanfare music, sardine dancing, er…I mean, sardane dancing. Papa calls it sardines dancing because the dancers hold hands and look like sardines…well…dancing!!!
Mama tried to learn the steps quickly and fell all over herself but a patient friend taught her. It’s not as simple as it looks.
There are booths for food (sardines!!! I might be invited this time) and wine and beer and champagne and a gazillion tourist anthros driving the kitties of Collioure nuts, haha.
But, heh, heh, I KNOW they all have their hiding places from which to watch the silliness.
And hope for a dropped sardine. Those papa plates are really flexible when filled.
I wonder if mama has a sardine suit to wear to the dance?
And if you think I’m goin’ out there with all those DOGGIES, you’ve got another think comin’!
ESPECIALLY NOT THIS ONE! Mama, give it up!!!
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I wouldn’t go out there either, Loulou! That looks a little too wild for me! I hope your humans brought you back a package of fresh sardines for nom noms & I hope it didn’t come with a D-O-G! Tee hee hee!
Oh, they open sardines all the time and I am RIGHT there, every time, looking hungry and wistful….works every time.
We didn’t know there was a patron saint for fish. What a fun celebration!
Well, for fisher-men. Er…people…but there were not female fisherpeople then, I’m sure. They were busy cleaning anchovies with their thumbnails.
WELL, thank goodness, no fireworks here either!!! We doggies run for cover – instead we had beautiful music by the philharmonique at the kiosk in front of the Promenade. And there was another doggie in a stroller!! Quite a few of canines enjoying the ambiance. I got lots of giggles from the security check in – guess they’d never seen a doggie-princess in a stroller before!! But nothing like the Big Holiday in Collioure, with great things to eat!! Hope you got a few sardine nibbles – YUMMMMM!!!!!
Really JUMPIN’ here!!!! So many anthros on the streets and stilt walkers and food and drink and lovely weather and family anthros running all around. Those little ones had a mercatino, a little shop, set up in their front window…enterprising little devils, no? Mama bought a necklace for a euro. But no kitty collars…
I have never heard of that kind of dancing.
It is a Catalan tradition and today lots of anthros are in Catalan/Sardane costumes…very pretty and old-fashioned.
Looks like a good time for everyone – better for the kitties if the fireworks get blown away, I guess.
Yes, tonight we’ll close up the house tight so that I will not be panicked out of my mind, haha. Actually, I’m used to them each year and we’re pretty far away. You have to TO them.