Oh Beautiful for Spacious Skies
June 23rd 2011 Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain.
For purple mountains majesties, above the fruited plains.
I know -- the lyrics to the song belong to America, but the sentiment was certainly stirring through my brain yesterday as we cycled 105 kms. from Carrion de las Condes to here in Burgos. This area must be the “bread basket of Spain,” definitely not as flat as Kansas but grow
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