A very quiet Andalucia Day

Yesterday was Andalucia Day here in the south of Spain. To be honest, I thought in true Spanish tradition they would have been a real day of it with fiestas etc. But no. Quite the contrary really. It was exceptionally quiet. There were barely any activities organised, the streets and roads were deserted and it seems everyone just stayed at home relaxing!

Maybe it's because that's what the Spanish do so well in Andalucia...relax. When we lived in England we lead quite fast-paced lives (not quite London commuter fast though) and it has really taken some time to slow down to the "preferred" pace in the South of Spain. I still get irritable in supermarkets and banks where the pace is sometimes approaches that where you could be certified dead. I think I still need to work on relaxing a somewhat more.

And why are most bank holidays in the middle of the week? Must slow down....