Fireworks Blog

As you may already know, summer in Japan is the season of Fireworks ( Hanabi 花火 ) - there are amazing fireworks displays almost all days and this year ( 2022 ) is the year that these shows are coming back to normal after the covid pandemic. If you like Japanese fireworks like me, a thing that I want to tell you (if you don't know), is the Japanese words for "fireworks show" - " Hanabi Taikai (花火大会) " - in my opinion it's a good thing to know if you want to do some searches on Google using the native Japanese language, allowing you to find real and updated Japanese information about their fireworks shows. Unfortunatelly, I'm not able to display the shows calendar directly in the blog, but I found 3 good Japanese websites where you can see the upcoming shows calendar , please check the links below: https://hanabi.walkerplus.com/calendar/ https://hanabeat.com/ https://eventsearch.jp/feature/hanabi/

Lousada is a Portuguese village from Porto district, Portugal . Since XIX century, after the construction of the Senhor dos Aflitos church in 1888, Lousada celebrates this catholic saint during the month of July and some days of August. Similar to almost every Portuguese catholic feast, one of the most important attractions are the fireworks shows. One important fireworks tradition is the " Fire Cow " (in Portuguese: " Vaca de Fogo ") - basically, this is a box with the format of a cow with pyrotechnic artifacts like gerbs / fountains attached to it. A man holds the "cow" over his head and runs near the people. Image from Wikipedia:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sebastianas_Freamunde_Vaca_de_Fogo_Inicio.jpg In addiction to the "Fire Cows", as any other Portuguese Catholic feast, there is a big fireworks show that I want to show you. It was filmed by the members of a Youtube Channel / Facebook Page named " Fes...