Reportedly, in this booming economy – the 8th largest in the world – 40% of homes can’t afford to take even one week’s holiday a year. I'm stumped by this but have finally put it down to the view that moving for a month or two to your second home along the coast doesn’t actually count as a holiday.

In a small village along our coast someone found a bottle thrown into the sea a few years ago in the Bahamas. It contained a 5 page letter in English, setting out the writer’s specification for the perfect woman and asking to be told if anyone knew of a lady fitting the bill. Again belying the national belief that Galicians are rather dense, one of the village males interviewed said ‘If I knew anyone as good as that, telling someone else would be the last bloody thing I’d do’.

Spain’s big annual lotteries are almost upon us and the news is that Galicia is being flooded with requests for tickets which end in the number 27. The logic behind this is that, after the fires of August and the floods of November, the region is due for some good luck in the form of a disproportionate share of the national lottery cakes. And Nov. 27th was the day on which the heaviest rains fell.

November turns out not to have been a great month for idiosyncratic searches that brought people to this blog. Here’s the best I can do:-

Pontevedra snobs
galicia croydon
suing your builder in Spain
if you tell a Galician

And, of course, our old favourite . . . animals brothels. Apparently submitted by a non-native speaker who thought his chances would be greater in English. I wonder why.

Galicia Facts

It’s official – The mini-submarine found in Vigo harbour a few months ago had been used for drug smuggling. A number of people around the country have now been arrested. We wait to see whether they are all midgets.