After seemingly weeks and weeks of rain and clouds, the first sunny day fell on Donosti's Santo Tomas day.
There's a big pig, stands upon stands of food and crafts, and thousands of
people, dressed in baserritar (traditional farming clothes).
Lasarte had its own, smaller festival, with its own, smaller pigs.
We walked to Donostia to enjoy the weather. This is agroforestry.
People preparing talo, which strongly resembles a corn tortilla. Because talo was one of the few available foods in the area post-Spanish Civil War, you will hear of older people who refuse to eat it because they had hardly anything else for years. Buying a simple talo with filling is now fairly expensive on festival days, especially in Donostia, but it used to be the cheapest and most widely available food.
Talo is accompanied by one of three things: txistorra (pork sausage), sheep's cheese, or chocolate. We opted for the vegan sausage booth. An American exchange student behind me was knowingly telling her companion "it has a picture of a pig on it, because that's what they're selling back there".
Txalaparta players. Below is a video of a txalaparta version of the song from the movie "Amelie", to give you an idea of what it sounds like.
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