It’s a beautiful day here on Gran Canaria, a low of 62 and a high of 70. We started out the day by walking along the promenade to the auditorium at the south end.
Along the way we stopped for pastries and coffee.
Later we saw a churrería and stopped for more coffee and a churro.
We were resting in our room when we heard the children’s parade starting so we went down to watch.
Duke was really looking forward to seeing them mark the end of Carnival by burning the sardine. We found some seats in the bleachers and waited for the parade escorting the sardine to start. It was worth the wait. The end of the parade was the sardine followed by mourners in black.
We followed the sardine as it headed towards the beach. We were swept along by the crowd and were dumped onto the beach. Eventually the sardine was carried down to the water and loaded onto a barge.
Eventually they lit the sardine on fire and then the magnificent fire works show started.
As the fireworks were ending we found our way to an Italian restaurant overlooking the beach and had dinner. The pizza and ravioli were excellent.
What a great day!
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I had never heard of “burning the sardine” until you shared it! And very glad that you did!!
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