title An Easter Parade, Nerja, Andalusia, Spain - 21st April 2019 intro It's our last proper day in Nerja. Having missed a whole bunch of "Semana Santa" - or Holy Week - parades, because they were all late in the evening, we finally get to catch the daytime one on the actual Easter Sunday. The square down by the Balcón is heaving, and the mobile phones are definitely out in force, but we get a reasonable spot to watch the parade assemble and then unfold out of the church, as it heads off for a few hours' stomp around town imgp9398 We get a spot of breakfast at a nearby café imgp9399 Outside the church imgp9400 The parade starts to assemble imgp9405 A woman with a cross imgp9407 The crowds start to build up too imgp9408 Harry's on the pooPad whilst Fred does drawing imgp9415 The chief of something chats to people imgp9417 Celebrants file into the church imgp9419 Fred takes some notes imgp9425 The church door is closed imgp9435 Outside, another band appears imgp9440 The bugle section marches past imgp9449 A joke is shared in the band imgp9451 Side drummers imgp9465 A couple of women in nets imgp9470 Bloke with a silver staff imgp9471 Harry looks nonplussed, as Isobel watches imgp9475 Lots of people with shiny staffs imgp9479 The head of the march exits the church imgp9495 Red, white and crosses imgp9501 The pointy hats, or Capirotes, represent penitence imgp9516 The first of the heavy floats is carried out imgp9525 The cross heads off imgp9530 Phones out imgp9532 A penitente, with a red Capirote, looks around imgp9545 A large statue of Jesus is next out of the church imgp9568 Incense is attented to imgp9591 The bearers wait for the rest of the parade imgp9593 An old woman in a veil imgp9606 Another veiled woman imgp9611 The final statue appears imgp9623 The bell is rung imgp9630 The saxophone section of another band marches past imgp9639 A TV presenter does her thing imgp9643 Capirotes and statues head past the Balcón imgp9645 There's even a phone on a selfie stick imgp9651 The final status heads off into the lanes imgp9654 Isobel fills up a water bottle imgp9658 The boys mess around on a bouncy castle imgp9662 Leather goods in an alleyway imgp9667 Fred digs another hole on the beach imgp9670 The gang walk up from Torrecilla 3 imgp9673 Harry on a hill imgp9674 We walk back to the bus imgp9680 A dried-up river bed, as seen form the bus imgp9683 Fred's up a tree again imgp9687 Harry and Isobel imgp9689 We head to Terraza La Parra for the last time imgp9695 La Parra's tiled sign imgp9697 Fred in La Parra imgp9700 Isobel and Fred walk back up to Los Capuchinos imgp9710 We drop our micro-car off at the car hire place imgp9711 Harry hauls his Trunki imgp9713 Heading in to Málaga Airport imgp9714 Isobel in the departure lounge imgp9715 A bunch of EasyJet 737s imgp9716 Isobel hauls her bag around imgp9717 Isobel and Fred haul luggage imgp9720 The sunny tarmac of Málaga airport imgp9722 Málaga's runway imgp9723 Somewhere near Málaga imgp9727 Fred plays Tom's Gold Run imgp9728 Isobel reads a book on the plane imgp9729 Back on the ground at Norwich Airport imgp9730 Under the wing of an Embraer 195 imgp9731 It's the same pilot as Nosher's trip to Exeter