Blessing Big Bertha
Exploring Copacabana in Bolivia, we saw a lot of decorated cars around the town. Further investigation revealed they had been adorned with trimmings in preparation for their blessing by the pastor at the town’s church. Turns out this is quite a thing. Each day at 10am and 2:30pm, and especially at weekends, vehicles assemble outside the church ready for their blessing. The pastor starts with a prayer and then anoints the car and owners with holy water, before moving onto the next. After the blessing, it is tradition for the owner to pour alcohol over the vehicle.
We decided to it would be nice to have Big Bertha blessed! So we proceeded to navigate the narrow streets to the church and bought the necessary trimmings and alcohol from the countless vendors outside. The pastor emerged at 2:30pm and performed the ceremony and Bertha was good to tackle South American roads again.
That is so sweet!
I hope BB is trouble free now.
Absolutely brilliant !