Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Follow-up: Sant Joan

Jeff and I ended up going to dinner that (Thursday) night near the beach and watched the droves of people head to the beach. We had dinner outside and saw a lot of small fireworks pop-up here and there.

We learned there is no central fireworks display for Sant Joan, which was disappointing; I like a good firework show. Instead the locals purchase and light their own fireworks for whoever wants to watch. On our evening walk prior to dinner we saw a firework store with a line about 30 people deep waiting to purchase their fireworks.

After dinner we headed to the beach to check out all the action, I think we got there about 11pm. There were a fair amount of people on the beach, but not as many as I would have though. Although, we live in a newer/quitter area so maybe that is why. We were told if we were to go to the popular areas where the nightclubs are that we wouldn't have been able to move there would have been so many people.

The people we did see on the beach were of all ages and some people even had small tents set up and portable grills. It reminded me of the 3rd of July fireworks in Milwaukee. I remember me and my friends would haul enough stuff to fill a small apartment to the lake front to watch the fireworks. Although, here people stay out all night long, no joke. We heard the announcement at the beach that everyone had to leave the beach by 6am so the cleaning crews could come through. We also heard fireworks/firecrackers going off ALL NIGHT...literally.

Without further a due...here are some pictures from that night.

This is one of the restaurants on the beach...they were all closed for private parties that night.


 Some fireworks that were already used lying on the sidwalk.
 Not sure if you can see it here, but as you got closer to the city center the beach became more dense.

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