We just finished experiencing our third Semana Grande here in San Sebastian. Like the past two years, the city did an amazing job of planning concerts and all kinds of other events. Of course, there was the annual fireworks competition.
Our enthusiasm started out strong – for the first time we went to see the kickoff event – the canonazo (a canon shot) of blue and white confetti. It was cute to see the little kids on their parents’ shoulders with their hands over their ears waiting for the shot to happen. Afterwards we enjoyed the street bands.
We saw the “giants” parade as well. As you can see, giant figures of cultural icons are carried through the streets each day. We’ve seen this type of parade in various parts of Spain and we’re not sure why it’s so “exciting,” which just goes to show that even after living here for more than 2 years, we will never be “locals.”
We only saw the fireworks show two nights this year. We figured out that if you have an 8:30 p.m. dinner reservation you can finish in time to walk out and enjoy the fireworks. So that worked out really well. But on those nights we ate at home we were just too lazy to go back out for the 10:45 p.m. fireworks.
We also caught some live music (when it didn't rain) and checked out the food truck scene. More than 10 with all kinds of offerings – burgers, hot dogs, Mexican, Argentinian, gelato, crepes, etc. We were very amused by the Basque Truck – serving bagel sandwiches. No joke!
Local ingredients stuffed into bagels. One of the owners is Basque and the other from England and this is their “fusion” concept. We didn’t eat a bagel, after all we rarely ate bagels in the US, but the truck was busy when we were there.
Never a dull moment,
Shana & Jeff
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