Days of Justice and Conception

 We are going on towards the Plain in Spain, where the rain does not really fall.  Prepare for emptiness and expansive. We will be gently rising 31m, which will take up yo 651m above sea level and the view ahead is wide,  Better have a chat about something else.






We have passed some sunflowers in a small field.  I had not thought much about it.  We have some locally.  According to Euroweekly the Russian invasion of Ukraine resulted in a need for alternative sources.  Castille Y Leon have answer the call.






In an article published by 20minutos, 58-year-old Ramón García, provincial secretary of the Coordinating Body of Farmers’ and Stockbreeders’ Organisations (COAG) said:  “Sunflowers had very good prices because the CAP subsidy (the funds from the European Common Agricultural Policy) – went directly into the price and the crop was very profitable with very low costs. But then shipments of foreign imports began to arrive in the ports of Malaga, Cadiz and even Seville and it hurt us a lot, many companies closed down,” 





For a look on quality I will point this towards you https://thefurrow.co.uk/sunflowers-spain-is-developing-new-high-quality-varieties-for-oil/





Christmas has come early in the UK. Poor Brueghel.  Forget the Battle of Carnival and Lent, this year the Battle between Halloween and Christmas has been a thing.  Halloween has been imported into Spain, much as its Trick or Treat incarnation has to Britain.  Spanish holidays tend to be regional, but with a few constant themes.   We are heading up to a cluster on nationwide held days.  Dia de la Constitucion Espanola is on the 6th December and Inmaculada Concepción on the 8th,  This year it is a Friday and Sunday,. And so expect the Monday to be a day of rest as well.





We will end today with the sad knowledge we will miss the Dia del Justica de Aragon - which wiki translates as the ‘Aragon Ombudsman Day’  That’s on 20th December and is a ‘Tribute to the historical figure of Juan de Lanuza y Urrea, who was beheaded for defending the rights and freedoms of the Aragonese people’










On we go.






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