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Martenitsa Day
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February 28th, 2010 Posted 3:58 pm
Tomorrow (1st March) is Martenitsa day or Baba Marta day which means Grandmother of March. It is a celebration that Spring is nearly here. Everyone wears red and white bracelets made from string or wool which have to be left on until you see a Stork. Then you take it off and put it on a fruit tree to encourage a good crop.
We went to the market the other day and it was a sea of red and white. Not just bracelets but stalls selling red and white hats, brooches and tassles to pin onto clothing. It’s a real tradition and you don’t see many people without a token of some kind. People are not supposed to buy their own, so friends each other them and you can end up with an arm full!
Ron is not keen on wearing his bracelet, so he will be on the lookout for a stork asap! The nests are massive and the stroks build them in strange places like on top of a telegraph pole where they look really precarious.
As it’s a bank holiday tomorrow, so we will probably go down the the Restaurant on the beach for lunch. They do very nice salads and it will cost less than £5 for both of us.
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