Hallowe’en. There’s no trick-or-treating here. But we do have ‘huesos de santo’ ('bones of the saints'), delicious marzipan biscuits in the shape of bones made to commemorate All Saints and All Souls Days (Nov 1st and 2nd) – just like the similar Ossi di Morti in Italy. Some of them even have an icing ‘bone marrow’ in the middle. Here are some we bought today:
All Saints Day (‘Todos Los Santos’, Nov 1st) tomorrow is a national holiday (yes, another one!). Apparently, most people finish work early today (Oct 31st) in order to travel to their place of birth to visit the family graves the next day. So the cemeteries will be packed throughout Spain, and, here in Bilbao, I suppose the Railway of the Dead (see last post) will come into its own.
That's all for now.
That's all for now.
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