It may be less on the radar than the carnivals in Rio, Trinidad and Tenerife, but Cádiz's annual extravaganza is still epic, with tens of thousands filling the streets where wandering groups of musicians entertain the crowds with satirical songs, and performers, costumed paraders and children's entertainers keep spirits high.
General manager Paul Pontallier, wandering from group to group, called it "A powerful vintage with a sense of classicism".
I would wander from group to group, listening to their plans and stories.
Over time and a handful of wandering ants the group finds its way home.
PIRATES are not about to replace stock traders in today's downtown, but there is another potentially lucrative group wandering the streets with money in its pockets and sometimes questionable tastes.
The first is that there's a new bet in town - forget who's going to win the Mercury, the hacks outside were taking odds on whether the first group wandering up the red carpet were the Portico Quartet, Rachel Unthank or Burial.
The 1994 film "Through the Olive Trees" starts with a man addressing the camera and introducing himself as an actor playing a director; in the next shot, he's seen wandering amid a group of young women who are seeking roles in the film.
His gaze wandering to a group waiting at the steam table, Jacobs interjects: Hey, see that fellow in the green shirt?
While the main, story side of the experience sees you undertaking city-saving missions either solo or as part of a group, wandering the snowy streets of a beautiful but largely static environment, in the Dark Zone, the streets teem with life.
Until about three million years ago the ancestors of Homo sapiens were mostly vegetarians, and they most likely wandered in groups from site to site where fruit, tubers, and other vegetable food could be harvested.
