in front of the screen again. after a nice, dry ride on the back of a tdm to barcelona, we fell right away into four days of fiesta en barcelona: fiesta de mercè. no way to get back to work. i don´t know any other country but spain, where it is possible that a city has a day off, while even the rest of catalunya has to go to work.

fiesta de mercé means a lot of people in the streets, music everywhere, endless fireworks and these castellers

solamente the great correfoc, a riotous fiesta of sparklers, firecrackers and roman candles, where colles de diables, devils and dragons, dance threateningly to the strains of an accompanying percussion band was canceled because of rain.