Arrived in Molina de Segura

Not really part of the walk but here I am in Spain with old friends. The whole extended family is turning out to meet me this evening, and judging by the quantity of meat that's been bought I'm in for a banquet. I remember one of the first times I came to Spain to this same place - I think it was at new year - and the amount of goat that was cooked and eaten in one evening.
This evening we had tuna salad, mussels, jamon Serrano, roast potatoes, lamb chops, lamb gigot chops, oranges, coffee beer wine and whiskey.
Everyone was talking about the economic situation in Spain. 50% youth unemployment, loss of social services, old age pensions being cut and so on. It all sounded very familiar. What's different, for Spain at least, is the acceptance and lack of protest. My
friends think that it's because the left
failed to counter right wing politics and the corruption of the spanish state and now the right is able to blame the left
for the dire economic situation while they continue the politics that produced it.