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 It is Saint Valentine's day, patron saint of expensive gestures.  Apparently El Dia de San Valentin was first introduced in Spain in 1948 by José ‘Pepín’ Fernández, the founder of Galerías Preciados, who saw this occasion as a great opportunity to boost sales in his newly opened department store. The campaign’s famous motto was “Practique la elegancia social del regalo” (Practice the social elegance of the gift).  So, Father Christmas and St Valentine are the grey squirrels of Iberian culture.



We are heading past the airport, look, the end of a runway, and out to one of those big, blocky places which colonise the out reaches of such places.  I love the contrast between deeply traumatised and ordered nature in the environs of whatever the white cube is making and the utter shrub of the unmanaged bits.



We are passing so many opportunities.  We have to stop at Sistemas Phoenix Mecano Espana.  https://www.phoenix-mecano.es/  They get 3.8 stars.  Jose liked the place two years ago…. ‘Open house last Friday the 14th.  We were with the penultimate addition and everyone was very good.  You can see a company with a great present, but above all, a greater future. P.S.  To put it another way, the crumbs were missing the egg (just kidding).  The rest is very good.’



Plataforma Mercadona is a 3.9 star storage place.  https://www.mercadona.es/  Av Lulian reckoned ‘fast and smooth download’ and Dani said Order and cleanliness everywhere’

We end the day by Laboral Shop 2010 SL - a purveyor of work clothes shop. 




https://www.laboralshop.es/  Angel said ‘Good prices and good service.  The truth is that they have everything, especially a wide variety of pants and shoes for work.  I loved how they personalized my clothes’


















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