So there we were having a quiet Monday evening meal in the town square of Prades in the French Pyrenees.
Then the square started to fill with people in costume who started to build human pyramids. The square filled with dancers, the Mayor made a speech, horseman carrying flaming torches galloped into the square, small children in period costume were pulled in carts into the square ( it looked like a scene from Les Miserables) and finally everyone carried flaming torches and processed through the streets of the old town. (We joined in - after all, it would have been rude not to!). It was apparently the Feast Of Saint John. For us it was a surreal experience!
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Location: Prades, France.
Photographer: © Ron Sutton / www. ronsuttonimages.com