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SUNDAY SUNDAY B4 MAY 17, 2020 LIVING B4 MAY 17, 2020 CLASSIFIEDS Submitted Photos LEFT: Guests at a La Feria and Chocolate con Churros caseta during La don’t eat much fried center to the books warned that the can be performed alone Feria enjoying a tradi- food. For some reason, fairgrounds. drink is deceptively strong or with a male or female tional pescaito dinner Iit’s always been easy Our guide and to drink cautiously. partner. I have paid to see with rebujito drinks. for me to avoid the array had warned We peered in through the professional Flamenco of fried sweets at county us that the openings of the tied back dancers and singers but BELOW: A chocolat- fairs. Don’t get me wrong. festivities door curtains, wishing it at la Feria, much of the eria in Seville, Spain, I love sweets, but it’s the didn’t start were our families enjoy- dancing was in the streets, selling chocolate con fried part that’s not entic- until mid- ing the meal. As visitors, available for all to see or churros at 2 a.m. ing. This righteous attitude night but MARY we could join in the public even join in. We stopped changed in Seville, Spain, to get there CLARK booths, serving the same wherever the crowd circled when I was introduced to by 10 p.m. in Guest foods and pitchers of rebu- around dancers, clapping the chocolate con churros, order to eat Columnist jitos but without the need and swaying with the a local favorite. and wander. for an invitation. singing. Women dancing Seville is one of the most Of course, 10 p.m. is late About 11:45 p.m., the with women was more beautiful towns in Spain for us to even be up, much 15 streets of the fair- common and the dance with its narrow streets, less beginning an evening grounds began to fill with easily accommodates this white washed buildings out, but we were getting those who had finished arrangement. In the larger, and flowers trailing off used to the later nights in their meals. The local corporate casetas, bands of balconies. It hosts two Spain. orchestra played its last played and guests struck major events — Holy Week On the bus, local women piece and members dis- their heels on dance floors. and La Feria. were decked out in long persed. Overhead, I could It was a wondrous Many more tourists flowing skirts and flow- see many lights strung evening and most partici- come for the Holy Week ers in their hair, an early across the streets but pants seemed prepared to parades than La Feria, indication of what was to they remained unlit. At dance through the night. ordered the traditional good time. We were happy which allows the fair to come. The Seville fair- the stroke of midnight, a By 2 a.m., however, it was Chocolate con Churros. to have experienced such be more of a local event. grounds are transformed great cheer rang out as enough for us and we rode Note it was chocolate with an evening, but it was the Without prior planning, we during La Feria. Hundreds the switch was pulled and the bus back into the city. churros, not churros with chocolate con churros learned on a walking tour of individual casetas or lights everywhere came As we left the bus, there it chocolate. This meant an that we would continue of Seville that La Feria was tented spaces are set up on, as if the night were was, on the street corner, emphasis on the chocolate, to search for during the opening that April evening side by side, some spon- dawning. And the real a lit oasis, a Chocolateria, a thick creamy cup of dark remainder of our Spain and we should not miss it. sored by families, some by music and dancing began. a portable food stand that chocolate made for dipping trip even if it meant stay- Our guide instructed us to businesses. Inside were I do love Flamenco danc- follows the fairs all over the freshly fried donut-like ing up half the night. They “dress up,” wear our finest the invited, seated at long ing. Its sensuous twirls Spain selling Chocolate churros. We didn’t even and to get ready to dance. tables, being served the require delicate hand con Churros. It was indus- think about the calories. were that good. Following instructions, traditional fair food of a movements reaching in trial size and would be It was after 3 before we we pulled out the fanciest Pescaito dinner of fried the air, clapping, fingers open all night, catching the got back to our apartment, Mary Walker Clark is a retired attorney clothes we could muster prawns, baby squids and snapping following the party crowd as they head- tired but full. La Feria turned travel writer. Her stories may be from our carry-on suit- clams and rebujito drinks beat of the singer, guitar ed home, hoping they were would continue every found at her blog, Mary Clark, Traveler cases, meaning slacks made from Manzanilla and sometimes the beat of as hungry as we were. 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