Bringing art to employees and the community


I’m afraid this will be the last post till January with photos.  Apparently there is a limit to the number of images from Streetview you can use in a year - and I broke it a long time ago.  The AI has finally caught up with me and a warning has been issued.  Next year we will be limited to about one picture every three days.



Welcome to Santos Inocentes: The Feast of Holy Innocents. Not only are we remembering the Royal murder of the toddler threat by King Herod but it is the Spanish April’s Fools Day.  Sorry for the above.  I am not really into pranks because it all seems based on making people look stupid and, to be honest most are capable of doing it themselves unaided. Working in education the average jap is to declare ‘your shoe laces are untied.  Given that Fact Checking the statement is seen as the equivalent of being foolish it seems a no win situation. Having said that the gentle misdirection of the Spaghetti harvest was well done and a worthy exception  .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU&t=12s  Should you wish to join in the japes, feel free to pin the cut out of a man on someones back.





Meanwhile, back on the Avenida del Ebro we pass Logista and then turn to rejoin the N-232.   Just before we embrace the National highway weare passing the Mueso Wurth La Rioja.  https://www.museowurth.es/  It is a museum of modern art.  It claims ‘The museum was conceived as a space whose dynamism would be defined by the rotation of temporary exhibitions.’ and who are we to disagree.  You probably need to go there to find its full worth.  El Rideout said, three months ago, ‘Really nice museum and it's free. Very cool that this German fastener company  has a number of museums around Europe next to its plants. Bringing art to employees and the community is an example more should follow’










So it is and so we go on.











































 

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