Set them all on Fire

.....giant bamboo floats wobbled on top of men in the main plaza in Cuenca. Each had numerous novelty windmills attached and they seemed to be a fire hazard waiting to happen, adorned with papier mache and highly flammable bunting. I thought nothing of them, and turned down past the new cathedral where a huge sweet market had assembeled in less than an hour. Women roared out the different flavours and tried jabbing the sweets into my mouth. Then I noticed something, wasps, thousands of them, covering the sweets. I hate wasps but this market went the length of the street. And being there with a fellow traveller, Nadine I didn´t want to appear to be the whimpy man, so casually I ran down the street only stopping to suck in air to scream out. I hid amongst about 20 fusball tables that also had mysteriously appeared.
On regaining my composure we wandered back to the main square were fireworks had begun exploding and the remnants of the fireworks rained down on peoples heads. But they were mere light wood, unlikely to hurt. And then the reason for the bamboo floats became apparent. They were huge firework staging points. People gathered around the floats, eager to be entertained. The fireworks started and smiles washed there little faces. The tower leaned and screamers began pointing into the crowd, smiles sullied with terror now as rockets crashed into the crowd and they panicked for a split second. Then the danced as large blobs of fire rained down on them. A true testament to Latin American health and safety....
....stuck in _Cuenca for 6 days due to road closures can make you go crazy, and it did.Sitting in the Panama Hat shop, while rain pummelled down for the fourth successive day a super hero was born. Casual Man. I saw him there I swear.
.....Got out of there in a rush to Vilcabamba. Valley of Longevity. Interestiung place with a seedy underbelly. You got to wait for that though.
Adios