festivals

[Jeffrey Crawley]

That's amazing, I was two days behind Murphy as I set out on 13 September
and missed all of these

Jeffrey

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 23:50:20 -0600, murphy brasuel <murphaNM.NET> wrote:

>We walked starting Sept. 11,  2001 from St. Jean-Pied-de-Port
encountering  a
>large festival in Logrono Sept 20(a Thursday) that was to last through the
>weekend.  Plenty of wine, water fights, and neighborhood parades.  After 2
or 3
>hours we walked on to Naverette as we realized that no one was going to
sleep
>much that night.(senior citizen pilgrims)  Also the small medieval town of
>Ciraugui 7 km. from Puente de la Riena celebrated Sept. 15 with running of
>small bulls and enough partying to leave piles of wine and beer bottles
>everywhere. (We were 1 day late on a Sunday)  A festival was also taking
place
>near Cizur Mayor as we passed through Sept. 13 but I know nothing about
it.  (A
>suburb of  Pamplona)  From mid September until we finished in late October
we
>found no other fiestas on route.
>
>Jeffrey Crawley wrote:
>
>> You've got Hispanidad on 12 October and you may well run into some local
>> harvest celebrations in the Bierzo (once all of the work is out of the
way)
>> but otherwise the "big" fiestas:Semana Santa,Feria de Abril,San Fermin
are
>> all over and done by September.  Even Hispanidad is low key in the rural
>> areas.
>>
>> Jeffrey