Very loud music Saturday night

Well said Ray!

Over the weekend it was also the fiesta of San Fermin.   Here in Almoradí it started with noisy fireworks on Friday and finished on Sunday, with lots of noisy rockets in between.   At the end of this month we have the fiesta of San Abdon & San Senen, followed by the fiesta of the Moors & Christians.   Two weeks of fairground rides, many parades, several late/all night discos plus fireworks.   Just glad that I don’t live in the centre of town.   The main street  is usually closed because of the fairground rides on it.

This & I´m sorry to say again......I have replied before for this:

Two instances on the same night, was mentioned almost 20 years ago by an old English Lady (we called her the Lady of the mountain, has sadly, since departed).

It was an August 14th/15th midnight, with not many Brits in our town, but Spanish, mixing with a group of locals, waiting for the streets before the shop owner´s boarded-up their shutters for the inevitable annual scorch inferno, fireworks to hit the roads, windows, shops & buildings.

With, watching, two old Spanish ladies, side-stepping the youngster´s “jumping-jacks”, the (caretillas) fire-works had been planted with fuses lighted along many on the main street.

The English lady exclaimed, “It´s disgusting, the old ladies, here in Spain permitting how´s fireworks permitted, like bull fighting allowed!.”

A local Spaniard quietly heard & replied understanding English, “This in Spain, and many years ago these old ladies were throwing their own fireworks when they were young, and besides whether or not we agree with bull-fighting or not, at least when our old folk are looked after, they´re not popped off into old folk´s homes. It´s, for that reason, that concentrating on traditional values as opposed trying to apply the “law to the letter”,or nuisance problems, those in authority may concentrate on perpetrators wrongdoers & convicts aiding on their correct jailbird side of the bars. Enjoy the Spanish style.  

Bangs, fireworks, the way it used to be (UK) !

Villas

They only enquired what is was!

España !

V

Ole !

Being newly arrived I thought it was a rave going on.  Anyway I Hope everyone enjoyed themselves and it's great to keep these traditions going- 5 centuries I think I read somewhere? 

In the interest of maybe either attending the next all night celebration ( or maybe sleeping in a different part of our house if we cant attend ) are there any other nights we are likely to be kept awake coming up soon? We are on the south side of La Marina Urbanization. Thanks 

Thank you for the advice we will go to tourist info I think as hopefully they should have dates of all fiestas in area. We are still settling in with work to do around house so will probably just miss this summer but hope to join in next time. We were trying to understand why festivities go on right through the night but figured it must be because of the heat during the day. Anyway hope everyone enjoys this summer. 

Be aware that the next ‘bank’ holiday (i.e. red) day is the 15th August.