Flying the flag

The small village of Venta de los Pinos celebrates its annual three week fiesta during September. This year the authorities  asked local residents to organise a British Night to be filmed by a Murcia television channel.

There are only 30 houses owned by people from the UK in the village but that didn't stop them from setting up  a committee to  organise the event. The committee received support and funds from both the town hall and Murcia City Hall to enable them to provide food and entertainment.

Festivals goers were  entertained this Friday by Scots pipers, Morris dancing, a brass band and folk singers who made the special trip from England. There was also an Irish dance performed by the dance classes from the Pensionistas club in Playa Flamenca Civic Centre.  As well as the Irish dance they performed dances to “Singing in the Rain” and “La Vida Loca”.” The morris dancing was arranged by Ian Smith, who runs a folk music club at Monos Bar, Cabo Roig who said that they had been practising since June.

So maybe the suggestion by Pete Brooks, on the 10th March, that we could perform a morris dance for Bigastro's August fiesta wasn't so crazy after all. If the Brits from 30 houses in Venta de los Pinos  were capable of organising a special day,  surely the larger British community in Bigastro could do something as good or even better.

Maybe next year!