St John the Baptist Day

Today is another holiday in Spain. It's St. John the Baptist. The big party however began last night, the official beginning of summer and the longest night of the year. The tradition here is to have bon fires all night long and lots of fireworks. We didn't see any organized fireworks just everyone lights fireworks and louds rockets whereever you went. Bronwyn, Tobin and I headed out to explore around midnight, we saw a number of neighbourhood fires, one where people were waiting in line to add their piece of wood to the flames and people of all ages lighting a wide variety of fireworks, bottle rockets. It seemed that the most important factor was to make as much noise as possible. We also found a block party with a live band and when midnight arrived, the St. John cakes all came out. They seem to have a different pastry for every occasion.