70%
of Spanish parents don't want Religion (i. e. Catholicism) included
as a subject which counts towards students' university entrance mark. This
is more than one would have expected, especially when María and José
(Joseph) remain the most popular forenames in the country. But the
current administration is pretty right-of-centre and beholden to the
RC Church. So the electorate can probably go hang. But it'll all be reversed when the the Socialist PSOE returns to power.
Talking
of the Faith . . . Some late-night TV viewing last week taught me that you can now buy an electronic rosary that gives you John Paul II, telling his beads along with you. Whether this
makes your prayers more acceptable to God, I wouldn't know. But I do
know that fleecing the faithful remains as popular as ever, as the gadget will set you
back 50 euros.
Talking
of late-night TV . . . Somewhere along The Way, I was (re?)introduced
to the pleasures of the Nova channel. This seems to specialise in
South American soap operas (culebrones) which are so bad
they're rivetingly good. Especially as they feature some of the
world's most beautiful women. They can't act for toffee, but who
cares?
The
last stage of last week's camino approaches and goes round Santiago
airport. In the 3 hours it took us to navigate this bit, we saw a
mere 2 planes. Though, in fact, I suspect it was really only one, arriving and
leaving 30 minutes later. So I wasn't too surprised to read yesterday
that, whereas the single airport of Oporto down in North Portugal
offers 63 destination and had 6.1m passengers in 2012, the three
Galician airports only muster 27 destinations between them and had a mere 3.9m
passengers last year. So, what are they doing about it? Well, they're thinking of having just one director for all three airports.
Should it ever happen, it'd be a start on rationalisation, I guess.
Finally
. . . I walked 66 miles last week but gained weight. It could be
muscle replacing fat, I suppose, but I fear it's more likely to be
the wine that my companions felt compelled to pour me during each
lunch and dinner. Thank God I breakfasted alone.
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