Thursday, January 28, 2010
Fiestas of San Antonio Abad 2010
This coming Sunday, January 31st 2010, the town of Buenavista del Norte holds it's annual Livestock Fair and Romería (translates loosely to walking piss-up) in honour of Saint Anthony Abbot, who, amongst other things, looks after the spiritual needs of farm animals and pets.
Oh, how we miss these occasions to see all the lovely animals; horses, cattle, goats, dogs, ferrets, chickens in baskets, iguanas on leads, doggies getting pony rides ... and, by mid-afternoon, a whole wall-to-wall (or curb-to-curb) carpet of freshly produced manure.
The Livestock Fair, as usual, will be held in the ambitiously named Recinto Ferial (Fairs' Enclosure) - it's a patch of waste ground - in the Triana area of Buenavista del Norte (see map), starting sort of mid-morning.
The procession is around the middle of the day, more or less, give or take a couple of hours, and will proceed down the main streets to the square and church, where the animals will be blessed for another year.
Click here for more of our photos from previous years
Los Silos held their celebrations last week, as did La Matanza (read Andrea Montgomery's account of the latter to confirm it's the fiesta of fertilizer, strange pets & cheap booze.) We noticed that at last week's event at Los Silos - there's a slideshow of images currently displayed on the front of the Radio Isla Baja website - that the lady with the turkey on a lead was there again, but this time she was accompanied only by a chicken (is this a downgrade, due to the crisis?) We don't want to speculate what happened to the turkey in the interim! 
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