As an aside, it seems that, if you run foul of Spain's planning laws, you'll be served with a demolition order if you've erected a small monument or if you're a British couple called Prior and you've bought a house legally and in all good faith; but not if you've erected any of the hundreds of thousands of illegal houses all over the country. Or even if you've built a particularly ugly hotel right on a beach. As I say, I guess it makes sense to someone. In an arbitrary sort of way.
Just
when he thought things couldn't get any worse, 3 of the Spanish
king's distant cousins have been implicated in a Chinese mafia
money-laundering scandal. The latest names on the ever-revolving corruption conveyor belt.
Which
sort of reminds me - If I were to ask you which EU countries' CEOs took
home the highest pay, would you really come up with 1. Italy and 2.
Spain? In the latter case, they pay themselves an average of 788
euros an hour, compared with 592 in the UK and 545 in France. Because
they're worth it? En passant, the lowest paid workers in Spain get
3.85 euros per hour.
Galerías
in Galicia are 1. Shopping malls under residential blocks, or 2.
Glass-enclosed balconies on the outer walls of flats or whole
buildings. There are lots of these in Galicia's coastal cities and
Pontevedra is no exception. For some reason or other, I decided to
photograph many of them today. And here they are, all from the old quarter, or El Casco Viejo:-
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