The Corpus Cristi Flower Festival

But what's this?
The Giants are heading straight into the petal-strewn streets!
All that work. All that effort.

Crazy! Illogical! Spain is different!

But, then again, don't you remember as a child the pleasure you got from smashing up something that had taken you hours to build?

De-struction as a counterpoint to con-struction.
Yin and Yang again.
Look at Shiva the Hindu God. Look at Milosevic.

Whatever, I bet you'd love to be the bloke in the white plimsolls.

.. and the whole procession follows. Here we have the Moorish Queen, impressively tall in the narrow streets.
And the Americanos.

These were people who returned to Sitges having made their fortunes in Cuba a hundred years ago.

And at the end of the procession come the boys and girls who have had their first communion on this day. Despite the pagan trappings, Corpus Cristi is a religious holiday.

(Note the state of the streets by this point.)




Rock n' Roll provided by: the Cobla Sitgetana

Sountrack available on CD and cassette in all good record stores and leisure centres everywhere.





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Well, I'm off to the Riviera for the summer. I'm doing an exclusive on Baby Doc's birthday bash. It's going to have nice people like Richard Giri, the well-known nudist budist, Idi Amin, the famous gourmet, and that Melanie Griffith woman, not boring people like you!

Streuth, I'll be glad to get out of here. Nuria has reserved a sleeper for us both to Nice. I'll be taking some pictures of her too but only for my private collection.

Bye suckers,
Louis LeWiss