Last night was the night of the burning of Las Fallas. There is one in each little neighbourhood in the town, and the best ones are decided by a panel of judges, with the not-so-good ones being burned at about 11pm and the best ones being burned at around 2am.

I couldn’t stay out until 2am because I had to go to work today (look how responsible I am), so Nathan, Aashna, Caitlin and I decided to go to the earlier ones.

We found one that was going at just after 11pm. It was a giant grim reaper with its arm outstretched, and dangling down from its hand was a puppet of a little boy. I took a photograph, although the picture quality is pretty appalling because of the streetlights:

Las Fallas, Elda

When we turned up, there was quite a crowd gathered around the statues  (one large, one small)…