In a holiday mood

 Well, it looks like we are in Lincolnshire Toto. Alright, it is flat, very, very flat…. And agricultural.  Maybe a bit drier. A lot hotter.



Murcia has a number of holidays.  New Year’s Day is, radically, on 1st January and Epiphany on the 6th.  Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Monday [2nd, 3rd and 6th April] are holidays as is 1st May [Labour Day].  The Assumption [15th August], Hispanic Day [12th October], and All Saints [1st November] are days of rest, as is Constitution Day [6th December], Immaculate Conception [8th December] and also Christmas.  The 9th June is Murcia day.




Trip Advisor reckons the top ten things to do in Murcia are:


  1. Catedral de Murcia

  2. Real Casino de Murcia

  3. Plaza de las Flores

  4. Plaza Cardenal Belluga

  5. Museo Salzillo

  6. Terra Natura Murcia

  7. Barrancos de Gebas

  8. Mercado de Veronicas

  9. Santuario Nra. Sra. de la Fuensanta

  10. Snta Clara Monastery & Museum






Generally, nostalgia is to be enjoyed, free of the fact the olden days were ghastly.  I do miss, however, the Holiday Programme.  For any young people who have wandered in ‘Holiday’ was prog that began in 1969 and brought to the gloom of post Christmas the exotic charms of distant places with strange sounding skin diseases.  Apparently it went on till 2007 - but I don’t remember it into those later days - so clearly it wasn’t as much as a hook as it had been - or went to a time that was not available to be seen.












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