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5 Reasons to Get Out of Town before Semana Santa Starts

3/27/2015

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Don’t get me wrong. I love Semana Santa. Or did anyway. Especialy the first time I saw it, even the second and third times I thought it was pretty surreal. I've seen it in big cities like Seville and Malaga. I've seen it in small towns like Almunecar, and Loja. I loved the anonymity, the incense smell, the costumes and the sheer physical exertion from everyone from the nazarenos to the costeleros. In fact, I wrote a chapter on what I believe is really special about Semana Santa in Inside the tortilla. You can check out the photographic version in this weeks free ePub and PDF give-a-way: An Agnostic in Semana Santa and get a FREE CUT OUT DOLL'S at the same time too! See below for links.
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But you see, after a few years things tend to change. Some people in town -  that I had previously thought to be afficionados of all things religious - turned out to be Semana Santa haters and one evening, they sat me down and gave me 5 persuasive reasons for fleeing Spain during Semana Santa.

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Why Will 2015 be the Year to Live in Spain?

3/3/2015

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"Pronto llegará la hora, 
que la tortilla se vuelva. 
Los pobres comerán pan, 
y los ricos mierda, mierda."
  • WHY 2015 IS GOING TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT YEAR IN SPAIN SINCE THE DEATH OF FRANCO
  • WHY SPAIN MAY SPEARHEAD A NEW RHTYHM AND DANCE
  • WHY CHANGE  IS EMERGING FROM A NEW SOUTHERN EUROPE AND NOT FROM THE WASTELANDS OF THE NORTH 
  • WHY SAM COOKE IS BACK IN TOWN
  • WHY THE TORTILLA IS ABOUT TO TURN

2015 is Going to be the Year to Live in Spain. 

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Oh yes, and why's that? Well, funny you should ask, because it's not because the housing boom is coming back. Hopefully not anyway. The unfettered expansion and unsustainable growth of the tarmac and concrete industries will hopefully never return. Yet 2015 is going to be a special year,  but not because Spain has a new young king with a 300 Spartacus Beard, nor (speaking of beards) because the Partido Popular have declared Spain to be now "crises free", thanks to their transparent and honest example of good government. 
Neither because its spring and everyone but the kitchen sink has uploaded a photo of almond blossom to their timeline whilst dancing to Sam Cooke: "It's been a long, a long time coming...but I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will"
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