Easter Sunday in and around Turre

Papping the band as they came up the street towards the square!

After over indulging the previous night for our Indian meal we got up on Sunday and again Stuart was still feeling more than a little stuffed from the night before. So I had breakfast and he got ready to go out, then I showered and off we went into Turre to get a good spot for the parade. We were told it would all start happening at approx. 11.30pm. So we got there for about 10.50 to get a good spot. 

It's all happening now....

Well the square then apart from the band giving us and a few 
others a musical march past was pretty much deserted. The only people milling about were balloon sellers, cafe owners and the churros stand workers!


We got a place on the corner which gave us a birds eye view up the street and around and down the next, we were kind of in the corner of an L if you follow me!


Well 12 came and went, we heard distant rumblings from the band occasionally but no parade, then 12.30, then 1.00pm minutes ticking by peppered with musical punctuations from the drum section of the band. Then without warning we saw one of the carried religious platforms appear and we thought right this is it! But no another 20 minutes went by and Stuart and I said well this is Spain after all! Eventually the band appeared again and they slowly made there way past us and some of the religious platforms appeared in distant view then stopped.....By this time it was going on for 1.30pm and I was getting hungry even if Stuart was still saying he didn't want anything! So we beat an early retreat vowing to go to Lorca next year and see a real parade! Given the amount of people waiting going early was wise as I think there would have been gridlock later!

The band approaching coming up the street towards the Turre town square at approx 11.00pm

The drum section with the Churriteria behind! Think of doughnuts but not in rings!

The crowd building up down the bottom of the L

Cute little boy with toy! That suit made him look adorable!

The band finally makes it back down to us! They stop started a number of times before eventually...

They made it past us to stop and disband in front of the people at the bottom of the L

They came to a stop and filed past the distant Jesus effigy which weirdly came in from the opposite direction to all the rest!

Once we got to the stage where we decided to leave we went on to our next place which was Mojácar Playa to the local Ideal Home Exhibition which I thought might be useful for us. On the way I said I'd like to stop for lunch, Stuart still insisting he'd not have anything except an Agua con Gas (fizzy water!). I said that as I'd missed out on the Tapas the previous Sunday in Almeria that I would like a Tapas lunch and we stopped at this swish looking cafe that is on the seafront near Spanish Property Choice (one of the local estate agents we are viewing with). So I chose 3 dishes, one with cooked prawns, a lamb dish and a chicken wings one and ordered drinks for us then went to the toilet. In the meantime Stuart added half a plain toasted baguette to the order for him. When they began serving us we also got a bowl full of olives, three small Spanish sausage rolls and some mixed fruit and nuts. Then the Tapas arrived with 4 good sized chunks of bread as well. All of this lot came to the total of 7.50 Euro which is a damn good value tasty lunch!! That will be another place we will more than likely visit again!

We then went onto the exhibition and after registering and being given a nice bag to carry things around in we touched base with the Consortium Estate Agent's stand where we found out about a new property we might be interested in, then we made our way upstairs to the main stands area. We saw Spanish teachers from Vera, Next Communications for Wireless Broadband (literally around the corner from us too!), a Reverse Osmosis drinking water company, Indigo Gym in Mojácar amongst others plus we gathered lots of business cards which will help us when we get into our new home!

So another productive day, tomorrow the home viewings begin!