Charlie here!

We have been to lots of parades, all very different. I am going to tell you about 2 parades that were very different!

The first parade was quite solemn and serious. The people in the parades were dressed in dark colours and lots of them had cone shaped hats on. It made them look very tall. The drums sounded quite slow and serious.

There were some ladies dressed in black with pretty lace hats on. The crowd watching were very quiet.

I think the lace was fabulous. I would have liked to have worn a hat like that for the parade. I don't think my pink fur would have been the right colour for the parade though. All the colours were dark or black. 


BUT........

a few days later, the parade was very different! These are the Roman soldiers. Can you see the bags in their hands? They were full of SWEETS!

They were throwing the sweets to the crowd as a celebration!  Can you see some sweets by the soldiers feet?

There were sweets everywhere and lots of children had brought bags to collect them in. Tiddy and I got lots of sweets. We had to run around collecting them as they were thrown. It was great fun!

The people who were wearing hats a few days earlier had filled their hats with sweets and were throwing them to the crowd. I have never seen so many sweets. Tiddy wanted to join the parade and throw the sweets he had found, but I said he might get trodden on, as he is quite small and everyone was dancing about having fun.

Look at all the flowers. They were so pretty and smelled lovely. Everywhere you looked , there was something pretty and happy!

Look! The ladies who were wearing the black lace are wearing white lace now. Dont they look great? They looked very Spanish. 

There were two beautiful white horses pulling this Roman chariot. Tiddy shouted, 'Horray!' really loudly as they passed by. They were his favourite bit... after the sweets. He's such a funny bear.

I thought these girls looked like Little Red Riding Hood in their velvet capes and white gloves. They were throwing sweets too.

Here are the men carrying a very heavy statue. They looked very tired, as it was a hot day and they had walked a very long way.

Here we are, back at the church square. If you look carefully, you can see a lady behind me enjoying churros.


Phew! That was a long blog! We have soooo many pictures to show you. Tiddy will be back soon, as he has some really exciting things to show you.


Charlie x