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SO GOOD I POSTED IT TWICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone who plans a visit to Spain next year, whether it's IWMH or not (not a plug to hijack the thread guys), I want to warn you off from a small valencian town where the natives are not as friendly as many make out. We were up there today with our friends James & Linda (fellow contributers to EOS), parked the car in a busy 'square' / piazza and were promply drenched in water and pelted with tomatoes.........................And we stayed !!!!!!!!!!

Actually it was the Fiesta La Tomatina and with this being my first visit, I thoroughly recommend it. We arrived shortly after 10am due to some briliant queue avoidance tactics by James (he missed the turn-off) but found a quicker entry into the town. Walk down the hill (approx 2 mile or so it seemed) and was duly showered from above balconies which i can only hope was fresh water !!!!!. We made our way down into the centre of the town where all the action takes place, literally unable to move any further due to the throng of people and again, with no protection (if only they made head sized connies) was soaked to the skin. At 11am, the cannons fire and then into the town parade 6 lorries full to the brim of ripen tomatoes which are then distributed without any grace into the crowd in number exceeding 130,000. Then the tomato fight begins.

What an experience, especially for those with hoses who enjoy for some reason washing the young female student attendees down............james, get your name down on the list for next year for that roll.! all the festivities continue on until 1pm when all and sundry emerge coated in a nice shade of fritto, even then, more are making their way into the town to make a mess of the remnents. 

This happens on the last wednesday in August every year and well worth a visit, the fiesta is actually a week long with many team competitions over the days but the tomato bash is the best................from experience. Anyone fancy it next year we'll happily meet up and create a team of British Olympic Tomato throwers.

regards
darren
I Want My Tomatoes

This message was last edited by Darren_Michelle on 8/27/2008.

Put our names down.. im picking tommies from our greenhouse by the bucket load this year!!!

Glad your having fun each good to read of some laughter!

Take care

Sal and Martin (represents tomatoes on the cheeks!)

MAKE SURE YOU PARK YOUR CARS WELL AWAY FROM THE DRUNKEN WOMAN covered in tomatoes WHO REVERSED INTO ONE CAR THEN DROVE INTO THE OTHER. 
Do as these Darren,Michelle,James&Linda  did and take a change of clothes with you too

Hi Darren & Michelle

Good to hear from you - I meant to send a PM but we then had internet problems (probably spent too much time online watching the Olympics, so Vodafone decided to cut us off!!!) and we knew you would be off-line for a while. 

Hope that you have found somewhere good to stay - assume that it's not Bunol?  We saw La Tomatina on Spanish TV today, but didn't recognise you - but I guess all tomato-splashed people look the same!  I think I'll stick to the Vendimia in Jumilla, especially as I don't like tomatoes - wine of course is a different matter! 

Regards.

Sue & John

My tomato's are still green and i only have three............i think i may have been growing them wrong.its my first time. im a tomato virgin.

now i have an incentive to get next years crop ripened (over ripened) for some August pelting.

Dont think it would be the same in yorkshire so i may just come over and have a look..............decent weeks holiday.......valencia grand prix followed by tomato throwing and vino

good idea

I want my tomato's and i want you to have your tomato's too

This message was last edited by briando55 on 8/27/2008.

Yep could certainly join in with a bit of tomato wanging.  Most enjoyable and a good time to get your own back.  JA would be OK because she would just eat them. Wonder if the pillow munching went down well last night,  I was smiling when I read that and the bit about the conservatory roof.

 Hope you all had a good day. Another day nearer to the BIG day of reckoning.  

Chrissie

briando Through all this. I have found very little to laugh about. The quip about wanting your tomatoes though!! superb!! I laughed for at least five minutes!

Ta Joanie

Glad im usefull sometimes.....got to laugh though havnt you, now and then