St. Martin

You may know that the official feast day for St. Martin isn't until Sunday, but this hasn't stopped my city from having their big celebration yesterday, a week early. There was a market with not very good arts and crafts goods for sale, food stalls, a stage with live music and most importantly: A guy on a horse in a Roman uniform who led a group of kids and their parents and grandparents and uncles and aunts through the streets.
The kids had lanterns, most of them handmade at school or kindergarten, but there were also the storebought versions around. ( Read more... )