It turns out that we'd arrived in Santa Barbara just as their annual Mexican fiesta was about to start.
The first sign for us was a young girl getting on a bus with a box containing around 18 brightly coloured confetti eggs. Then we heard that a few roads would be closed and finally as we arrived in the centre we could see the Mercado de la Guerra in full swing, with a rock band on stage and various Mariachi and Norteño groups grooving in the side streets.
Sizzling and popping from the adjacent stands were all manner of foods and colourful clothes, and this was still a day before the main events really got under way.
2 comments:
Sounds like it could be a good time to be in town. It's certainly very colourful! :)
Looks like Fun! I love things like this---it can be very very exciting, and the food can be quite amazing!
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