Tomorrow is a national holiday in Spain (the Assumption of Mary to give it it’s correct title). There are lots of public holidays in this country, but not all are national, and do vary from region to region. This can be quite confusing and also very inconvenient, especially for national businesses. At Castro Martin we quite naturally observe the local holidays of Barrantes (our village), Ribadumia (our municipality), Pontevedra (our Province) and also Galicia (our Autonomy). Believe it or not there are different holidays according to exactly where you are located, and the village where you live might actually have different holidays to the place that you work (even if it is only a few kilometres away)! Complicated.

In addition to public holidays our employees also have their annual holiday allocation, but then persuading them to take time off is quite another matter! In order to ‘encourage’ them we will often add an odd day (or sometimes two) to the public holidays in order to form bridge days, but this time we are actually adding an additional week to Friday’s festivo. This will be our last break before the harvest, and the last chance for our team to put their feet up and relax before the onslaught. The lull before the storm if you will.

In effect this means that we will be closed from Friday 15th August until Monday 25th….. have a great summer!

Tomorrow is a national holiday in Spain (the Assumption of Mary to give it it’s correct title). There are lots of public holidays in this country, but not all are national, and do vary from region to region. This can be quite confusing and also very inconvenient, especially for national businesses. At Castro Martin we quite naturally observe the local holidays of Barrantes (our village), Ribadumia (our municipality), Pontevedra (our Province) and also Galicia (our Autonomy). Believe it or not there are different holidays according to exactly where you are located, and the village where you live might actually have different holidays to the place that you work (even if it is only a few kilometres away)! Complicated.

In addition to public holidays our employees also have their annual holiday allocation, but then persuading them to take time off is quite another matter! In order to ‘encourage’ them we will often add an odd day (or sometimes two) to the public holidays in order to form bridge days, but this time we are actually adding an additional week to Friday’s festivo. This will be our last break before the harvest, and the last chance for our team to put their feet up and relax before the onslaught. The lull before the storm if you will.

In effect this means that we will be closed from Friday 15th August until Monday 25th….. have a great summer!