Saturday, March 30, 2002 08:30<\/p>\n
Weather: Blue skies<\/p>\n
Location: Hostal Delvi, Madrid<\/p>\n
Paul finally showed up around midnight. I\u00b4d given up waiting inside and went down to see if he was lost in the square. There seemed to be a lot of police activity around.<\/p>\n
Then, off to my left down the narrow Nu\u00f1ez de Arce, I saw a police van approaching with 6 horsemen in full Guards regalia behind: prettily prancing (but little) horses, shining metal helmets with plumes, red jackets with epaulets and shiny gold buttons. It was a Good Friday procession, and it went right past the front of the hostal.<\/p>\n
Immediately behind the horsement went the unluckiest members of the procession: 3 city street cleaners pushing a wheeled cart (for collection of said pretty horses\u00b4 excrement). Some distance after the advance guard came the bulk of the procession: a crossbearer; twelve servers in white cassocks, their heads covered with black felt hoods, holding long candles; the priest, in white, walking backwards half of the time, directing the movements of; the float, covered in red roses with a glass casket on top bearing the body of Jesus; then a 50-piece brass band in fancy black uniforms with dark trim, playing a funerial march; another float, this one bearing the Virgin Mary with a long flowing purple royal cloak; and finally, the parishioners, many of them carrying candles.<\/p>\n
Paul and I watched them all go by (for he had arrived shortly after the horse guard) and then went for a drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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