September 10, 2010

Fiesta!

During the opening of the Timog Avenue branch of Buddy's restaurant (see yesterday's post), the owners recreated some parts of the Pahiyas Festival. It was a fun treat seeing higantes (giants)…

higantes (giants) at the opening of Buddy's restaurant along Timog Avenue


and a brass band. Of course, both attracted quite a lot of attention from passersby, including a vendor hoping to sell some balloons to guests with little children.

brass band at the opening of Buddy's restaurant along Timog Avenue

14 comments:

SRQ said...

Those are some giants! That's a restaurant that knows how to have a grand opening.

Halcyon said...

This looks like fun!

escape said...

nice that they include higantes to symbolize fiesta.

Rob Siemann said...

In a couple of days will start here las fiestas de la Merce, in honour of Nuestra Senora de la Merce, holy patron of Barcelona. We will see many of those gigantes, gegants in Catalan, parading the streets. And a few fire-spewing dragons as well. Plus about 300 free concerts, fireworks, exhibitions, and so on. Can't wait!

Mike Rose said...

Great shots Hilda, so colourful, looks like fun.

Dina said...

This is nice and fun too, thanks :)

VP said...

Love the higantes and the band! I believe that some Pisans have infiltrated your last picture...

Roberto Machado Alves said...

Very interesting post. It's fun.

greetings.

Anonymous said...

These are neat. Giants. Yes, they are even mentioned in the Bible. They were the offspring of heavenly beings and human beings. Og was one and his coffin was enormous.

RIAU DAILY PHOTO said...

This is nice and fun

Kaori said...

Very fancy giants, though! I'm surprised they didn't just start dancing to the music :D

arabesque said...

hehe, the one on the left reminded me of speedy gonzales for some reason. ^0^ and they're tall alright!

the resto looks enticing, i'll try it sometime.

Photo Cache said...

they opened the branch with a bang. would have loved to be there on opening day.

Nefertiti said...

se que ca doit etre beau a voir et entendre !

;O)

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