About two weeks ago I had my second experience of a spanish “Feria”. Nearly every town has one and they last for a week. Each town has a saint representing them and it is a celebration in their honour. We went to the one in San Pedro (in honour of Saint Peter). Mike had arranged to meet his friend charlie and some of his friends. Really, it´s a time when people can get dressed up in traditional dress, have a few parades and eat and drink alot.

The first one I went to was last year in Fuengirola when were here on holiday. We went to the night one which is more of a funfair and went with people from church. It was good but a totally different atmosphere to San Pedro.

In Fuengirola we were a group of tourists, a bit unsure of what was going on and a bit shy in really taking part. In San Pedro we had gone with local people and saw a different side to the celebrations. What made it more special was Mike meeting some friends from when he lived here before and hadn´t seen them for over 6 years. This really captured the ferria for me because it is about a town getting together and just bumping into each other in the street and celebrating. It showed me that is more about communtiy then spectatorship.