The desired, the spirited and the sad.

 Tomorrow may prove interesting, today is almost 5km of roadway, the images being from February this year - yes, just four months ago.  So, today will be a five things sort of a day.

The oldest King of Spain was Juan Carlos I - who was 76 when he gave up the gig in 2014.  Joseph I was also 76 when he died but may not entirely be considered a top contender being French and only have done the gig for a few years.  Joanna was 75 when she died, in 1555 and Isabella was 73.

Here is a list of Spanish monarchs and their amusing epithets.

  1. Joanna the Mad

  2. Charles II the Bewitched

  3. Louis the Beloved, the Liberal.

  4. Philip V the spirited

  5. Ferdinand VII the desired, the felon

  6. Joseph I the intruder, the bottle

  7. Isabella II the one with the sad destinies.

Reports vary, but it is suggested the Spanish encountered the potatoes - which some of them called earth truffles, around 1537.  José de Acosta, who was in the Andes from 1569 to 1585,  noted the sun-drying and noted that the Incas used the potato to make a ‘kind of bread’.   The archives of Las Palmas reports that potatoes that were shipped from Gran Canaria to Antwerp in 1567. The first potatoes to be planted may have been in the grounds of the Seville hospital gardens.

The highest town in Spain is Pradollano, in Andalucia. It is 2078m above sea level and just over 300 people live there.  There patroness if the Virgin of the Snows,

Spain is most successful at the Summer Olympics when they engage in a spot of sailing. They have 14 gold, 5 silver and 3 Bronze.  Athletics comes next [5], then canoe spirit [4] and then Track Cycling [3].

Tomorrow, a mystery. Well, a place of interest.







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