I’m going to skip the details about Martha starting her morning on our “patio,” our run and our time at the beach . . .
. . . and go straight to the Mercé, which technically started today but the big day is tomorrow – 600 performers and 2 million attendees. This was originally a religious festival, but there’s not much religious about it now. We started respectfully by visiting the historical parade and the entrance of the huge puppets, which participate in a short play about kings, queens, animals, dragons and a turtle.
1. Note how happy the bull puppet is, which I’m guessing is because bullfighting was banned in Catalonia in 2010.
2. The guy in the dark sport coat who turns in my direction just in front of the dancing lion is one of many armed, secret security people who were talking to each other with little microphones and earbuds, which made me feel comfortable.
3. The King and Queen video is blurry because the air was filled with smoke and confetti from a canon that had just gone off and scared the shit out of everyone.
But then we went straight for the music, about which nothing is religious. But there’s a lot of great food, people dancing and general noise. This is all just a warm up for Saturday.
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