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. Joanna the Mad Charles II the Bewitched Louis the Beloved, the Liberal. Philip V the spirited Ferdinand VII the desired, the felon Joseph I the intruder, the bottle 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 th...