Guido Fawkes

Just got back from the fallas via an alternative route that may be of some interest.

The Plymouth Santander ferry is cheap this month (march) so a car and its occupants can be done for about £450. basic hostal accomadation in spain is about £18 pound a man. Accomadation in Valencia itself needs to be booked well in advance and is dear. We had a self catering apartment four miles out, from the the 15th to the 19th £320 (it slept six!) we were doing it as part of a rather bigger tour but the basic mileage would be under 1000 so say 9 miles per litre under £150 (petrol and diesel is cheaper there and the roads are fab no need to use the auto pistas). The ball ache with being out of town is the buses are no use and you need to go in twice a day for the mascleta at 1400 and then the fireworks proper at gone midnight so its cabs or drive in which all the guide books say don't do as parking is a mare. We drove in and it may take a little while but you'll find somewhere! so unless my maths is out the bare bones is under a grand for four people less food drink and hookers/gigolos .

bear in mind you sleep on the boat and can do Santander to Valencia in one day (450 miles) so you don't need accomadation in between.

We were there for two weeks using Hemingways "Death in the afternoon" as a guide book but the focus for the whole trip was the fallas

If you like your pyro it really is kill if you have to, sell your granny by all means, but go somehow!

Hi I've used H,cs stuff (only the Kn03) with no problems. Green meal can be hard to light. my absolutely base test is to put a bit on a fag paper and light that. you could do a simple test by dissolving as much KN03 as you can in a small (say a tablespoonfull) quantity of water. soak a bit of cotton string or paper in the solution and let dry. light it then blow out the flame.
it should glow red with a slow slightly fizzing progress. good luck. by the way well milled/ ground B.P looks very like fresh cement. very fine absolutely flat and almost the same colour.

Take your battered steel bucket dig down an extra foot and bed the bucket into dry sand if its fully supported you won't bend it any more

No ones mentioned the jars supplied by Inoxia these start at 1.3 litres and go up. they are soft plastic so flex and dont clog they have a screw cap and a seal but even in the event of an accident I should imagine the burst pressure would be way shy of 100psi. my only reservation may be longevity but my first ones done 20 hours with absolutely no sign off wear and at under a fiver am I missing something?

Thanks Fellahs it seems I've come to the right place. What binder should I use for the spollette and what diameter would be mini?I've been working on some "Rhythmic mascleta" and have been having great fun playing with pipe match diameters and loads. I made the black match using corn starch which works beautifully but it is fairly fragile I wondered if good old pva might work and add a little durability anyone tried it? Finally I'm probably about to teach a lot of grannys to suck eggs but if you want to make accurate timings if you record the event with reasonably up to date video camera, most of them will break it down to 32 or 64 frames a second. Thanks again