I met a friend at El Farito restaurante today down at La Barrosa. The young proprietor was busy gathering greenery from the hedgerow and when I went inside, he was using it to trim the bottom of his artificial Christmas tree. (So sorry, Picasa is playing up and will not post my right-way-up picture, drat it. Just tilt your head to the left).Now, this is a new phenomenon: northern Europeans Christmas-y stuff would not have been seen in this s.w. corner of Spain before a year or so ago. It crept in last year with lights in the town. Now you cannot move in the supermarkets and bazaars for sparkly balls, trimmings, Santas that can climb up walls, jingle bells, etc.....the whole nine yards.
So I was delighted when I went inside to see they also had the traditional Nativity. A lovely desert scene built inside a model boat.
No sign of a cagenar, the curious Catalan custom - see the post below. This Nativity is perfectly in keeping with the restaurant El Farito (little lighthouse) as it's all decked out with a nautical theme. The Christmas tree, to me, is a bit of an intrusion. It was a treat, however, to see the young man bringing all his creativity to the decorating of it.
2 comments:
I love it that you posted the photo anyway and told us just to tilt our heads - that is so fun! Sweet little Nativity Scene adaptation.
Thanks Barbee, so glad it amused you. I've now figured out why the picture didn't work, but with each program upgrade the procedure seems to be different.
A belated Happy New Year to you.
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