It's a Maltese thing

For the whole summer, every town (aka suburb) in malta has a weekend / week that they celebrate the church and saints in their town!

This consists of lighting up the church, band processions, lots of awful food trucks and then the 'fireworks' mostly a Big Bang sound and smoke and no fireworks goes off all night (to ward off the evil spirits) ... very strange! And oddly competitive! Between the towns and between the bands in the towns! ... for a country that only has 1/2 a million people! Odd!!!

This was the feast in the 'town' next to us! (Aka 10 mins walk from our place)!

Ps: imagine what the health and safety authorities in Sydney would say about the lamb IN the street for all to touch.