The patronal festival in the local town is a long-enduring marriage of Catholic devotion and awful tat. A major service in the local cathedral is followed by old Guido being carried around the town in his extremely heavy, gilded, glass-sided coffin by a team of red-faced old buffers. The streets are full of market stalls, mostly selling junk like special cloths that absorb 100 gallons of water or 'African' art.
Italy. An interesting, infuriating place to live as a gin-raddled expat. Some notes and observations.
Monday, 13 July 2009
San Guido's Birthday
The patronal festival in the local town is a long-enduring marriage of Catholic devotion and awful tat. A major service in the local cathedral is followed by old Guido being carried around the town in his extremely heavy, gilded, glass-sided coffin by a team of red-faced old buffers. The streets are full of market stalls, mostly selling junk like special cloths that absorb 100 gallons of water or 'African' art.
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We have a similar festival in England Ron, also celebrating a Guido- surname Forks. We go about setting fire to fairgrounds and shoving toffee apples up each other.
Why is a toffee apple so called? 100% Synthetic Sugar apple might be more appropriate.
Una Montana Russa....wasn't that a hit for Jonathan King back in the 70s?
Gyppos, Ron, gyppos gyppos gypppos. Though I love their music, mind.
Isn't a toffee apple just an apple and caramelised sugar?
"We go about setting fire to fairgrounds and shoving toffee apples up each other."
I am American. Nevertheless, the above sentence proves profoundly disturbing. Perhaps I live in the wrong country!
Regards,
jb
Then there's candy floss. Great for sticking in hair. I actually find an empty fairground quite an interesting place to walk around. You bumper car stall looks in pretty good nick.
That horseshoe is upside down: the luck will run out.
Affer, the Italians always put their horseshoes the 'wrong' way up. I shall have to have a word with someone.
Who the hell buys that African art?
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