If you’re planning on going up to Granada today, with plans to get lots of things done… forget it because it is a public holiday today, Friday the 15th of September.

Interrupting your gnashing of teeth, we’ll tell you why this year a completely illogical day is a public holiday up there.

Today is the Ofrenda Floral for the Patron Saint of the city, the Virgen de las Angustias. However, this day is not normally a public holiday and has come about after a juggling with the Toma de Granada, which fell on Sunday the 1st of January.

Yes, the City Hall, renowned workaholics, decided that the good folk of Granada could be cheated out of a holiday because the 1st of January is a holiday anyway, so they thought, let’s have a holiday in September, with the kids only back at school around a week.

Next year, 2018, the Toma de Granada will fall on the 2nd of January, so everybody can have two days off, as well as the Three Kings on the 6th, that is!

Editorial comment: and then we wonder why we’re fighting a losing battle against USA, China, India and Brazil when it comes to international trade.

(News: Metropolitan Granada, Andalucia)