It's TIME!!! La Nit de la Crem� has arrived!
At midnight on the dot a giant palmera (fireworks in shape of a palm tree) will be launched from the castle.
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| palm tree fireworks from the 2009 competition |
The newspaper says they're aiming for a record breaking palmera, both in duration and size (11.5m diameter, 700m in height). As it dissipates the Bellea del Foc will give the order to burn the Official Hoguera in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, and a few minutes after the Hogueras de Categor�a Especial will be ignited as well.
They go for simultaneous burns of all the big monuments so as to better distribute the crowds. All of it will be watched over by firemen, who will go from one Hoguera to the next until all have been reduced to ashes sometime between 3 and 4 a.m.
Now I'm going to go put my bikini on under a t-shirt and some shorts. Make myself a sandwich and head out downtown to watch it all BURN!!! Don't know which one yet... I want to take my camera and cell phone down (for pics and vid) so I'm going to want to avoid getting too wet during the bany�... the solution: plastic bags.
If you want to join in or have an idea of what I'll be doing, I highly suggest you check out the post (with video) I wrote last year about the Crem� and the Bany�! I was out with my sister and some British friends of hers visiting and we really lucked out by getting close (in the reserved area!) to one of the big ones. Since I'm on my own this year I won't go for something that intense... might end up at the one in the harbour like I did 2 years ago. That one usually has fireworks coming out of it as it burns as you can see from this little video I put together for my friends back then:
Have a good evening! I sure intend to, even though I don't plan on getting this wet:
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