Good Friday and some issues

After a short night of less than 6 hours sleep we got up and carried our suitcase down to Ivar's office. We made arrangements to have it sent to us in Zabaldika in 3 weeks.

Then we went to a Cafe above the Plaza Quintana where the first Good Friday Procession was starting. We met a Danish woman and her mother while having coffee.

Later we sat on the steps of the plaza and watched the procession. There were 4 pasos and two different bands. A priest told the story of Good Friday over the loudspeakers. There was a paso of Jesus bearing a cross with help of Simon. There was a paso of Veronica with a cloth with the faceprint of Christ. There was a paso of John and one of Mary. The bearers moved the pasos in the courtyard at various points in the story. It was easy to see how the people of old who did not read or have TV or movies could visualize the story.

We came back to our apartment after to find out that something was wrong with our hot water. The apartment owner and his dad worked on it and called a repairman, but this is a holiday so they made little progress. The hot water is an on demand system with large gas bottles. Saturday is not a holiday, but I did let them know that if it could not be repaired by tomorrow afternoon that we'd need to find another place to stay.

They are back tonight working on it again. Hopefully things will get fixed as we have no real desire to leave early.

Only one procession tomorrow night. We'll miss the ones tonight due to the work on the hot water system. We've just found out that they fixed it by putting a new valve on the end that connects to the gas bottle so we can stay put!Read more