The tour were treated to free wine and little fishes on a sort of biscuit. Then there was a band of old geezers playing and singing various songs at one point joined by a very old local women from the audience who got up on stage to do her version of the twist.
And in the morning there was the boat procession. Lots of priests sailing around the harbour at the end of which gun shots filled the sky.
Saint Erasmus, also known as Elmo, is a patron saint of sailors and apparently abdominal pain. Someone had to be the patron saint of abdominal pain and Erasmus drew the short straw. Or perhaps it has something to do with eating too many of those little fishes on those biscuits.
Anyway what a festival it was! Sadly Erasmus couldn't enjoy it as he died in the year 330 or thereabouts.
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