Horsemenrode their steeds through flamesin the annual "Luminarias" purificationfestival inthe village of SanBartolome de los Pinares in central Spain on the eve of St Anthony's Day on January16.
He hands me my change, a two peso note, the grubbiest and most fragile that I have so far encountered, with the face of national hero Bartolome Mitre barely recognisable.