We get a spot of breakfast at a nearby café
An Easter Parade, Nerja, Andalusia, Spain - 21st April 2019
It's our last proper day in Nerja. Having missed a whole bunch of "Semana Santa" - or Holy Week - parades, because they were all late in the evening, we finally get to catch the daytime one on the actual Easter Sunday. The square down by the Balcón is heaving, and the mobile phones are definitely out in force, but we get a reasonable spot to watch the parade assemble and then unfold out of the church, as it heads off for a few hours' stomp around town
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Outside the church
The parade starts to assemble
A woman with a cross
The crowds start to build up too
Harry's on the pooPad whilst Fred does drawing
The chief of something chats to people
Celebrants file into the church
Fred takes some notes
The church door is closed
Outside, another band appears
The bugle section marches past
A joke is shared in the band
Side drummers
A couple of women in nets
Bloke with a silver staff
Harry looks nonplussed, as Isobel watches
Lots of people with shiny staffs
The head of the march exits the church
Red, white and crosses
The pointy hats, or Capirotes, represent penitence
The first of the heavy floats is carried out
The cross heads off
Phones out
A penitente, with a red Capirote, looks around
A large statue of Jesus is next out of the church
Incense is attented to
The bearers wait for the rest of the parade
An old woman in a veil
Another veiled woman
The final statue appears
The bell is rung
The saxophone section of another band marches past
A TV presenter does her thing
Capirotes and statues head past the Balcón
There's even a phone on a selfie stick
The final status heads off into the lanes
Isobel fills up a water bottle
The boys mess around on a bouncy castle
Leather goods in an alleyway
Fred digs another hole on the beach
The gang walk up from Torrecilla 3
Harry on a hill
We walk back to the bus
A dried-up river bed, as seen form the bus
Fred's up a tree again
Harry and Isobel
We head to Terraza La Parra for the last time
La Parra's tiled sign
Fred in La Parra
Isobel and Fred walk back up to Los Capuchinos
We drop our micro-car off at the car hire place
Harry hauls his Trunki
Heading in to Málaga Airport
Isobel in the departure lounge
A bunch of EasyJet 737s
Isobel hauls her bag around
Isobel and Fred haul luggage
The sunny tarmac of Málaga airport
Málaga's runway
Somewhere near Málaga
Fred plays Tom's Gold Run
Isobel reads a book on the plane
Back on the ground at Norwich Airport
Under the wing of an Embraer 195
It's the same pilot as Nosher's trip to Exeter
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We get a spot of breakfast at a nearby café
We get a spot of breakfast at a nearby café
Outside the church
The parade starts to assemble
A woman with a cross
The crowds start to build up too
Harry's on the pooPad whilst Fred does drawing
The chief of something chats to people
Celebrants file into the church
Fred takes some notes
The church door is closed
Outside, another band appears
The bugle section marches past
A joke is shared in the band
Side drummers
A couple of women in nets
Bloke with a silver staff
Harry looks nonplussed, as Isobel watches
Lots of people with shiny staffs
The head of the march exits the church
Red, white and crosses
The pointy hats, or Capirotes, represent penitence
The first of the heavy floats is carried out
The cross heads off
Phones out
A penitente, with a red Capirote, looks around
A large statue of Jesus is next out of the church
Incense is attented to
The bearers wait for the rest of the parade
An old woman in a veil
Another veiled woman
The final statue appears
The bell is rung
The saxophone section of another band marches past
A TV presenter does her thing
Capirotes and statues head past the Balcón
There's even a phone on a selfie stick
The final status heads off into the lanes
Isobel fills up a water bottle
The boys mess around on a bouncy castle
Leather goods in an alleyway
Fred digs another hole on the beach
The gang walk up from Torrecilla 3
Harry on a hill
We walk back to the bus
A dried-up river bed, as seen form the bus
Fred's up a tree again
Harry and Isobel
We head to Terraza La Parra for the last time
La Parra's tiled sign
Fred in La Parra
Isobel and Fred walk back up to Los Capuchinos
We drop our micro-car off at the car hire place
Harry hauls his Trunki
Heading in to Málaga Airport
Isobel in the departure lounge
A bunch of EasyJet 737s
Isobel hauls her bag around
Isobel and Fred haul luggage
The sunny tarmac of Málaga airport
Málaga's runway
Somewhere near Málaga
Fred plays Tom's Gold Run
Isobel reads a book on the plane
Back on the ground at Norwich Airport
Under the wing of an Embraer 195
It's the same pilot as Nosher's trip to Exeter