Holy Week is a big thing in Spain, with lots of photogenic, religious processions. And this year I managed to miss the lot. Partly it was the weather – it drizzled and rained constantly for the second half of the week. Mostly it was a combination of laziness and business. I used to edit two of my blogs — the ones about the island of La Palma and El Hierro…
A lot of people on La Palma take Holy Week very seriously. The bigger churches hold solemn processions, which look very exotic to my English eyes. They take various heavy statues along the street, and some of these statues are beautiful works of art from the 16th century. But the bit that grabs visitors’ attention is the costumes. They remind me of the Klu Klux Klan. This is unfair, because…