Here's a bit of comforting news for we expats here in Spain. I wonder what the criteria
are and how they're weighted.
When I was about to
switch on the washing machine at midday yesterday, I vaguely recalled
reading that, here in Spain (assuming anyone understands anything
about how your bill is calculated), what you pay for your electricity
depends on the price in the energy market at the time you consume
it. So, the advice was to use it at non-peak hours, when the demand
would be less and the price lower. Maybe. Anyway, back in the UK I
had two meters, one for peak periods and one for off-peak periods but
I doubt they do that any more there. The question is . . . Can anyone in
Spain or Galicia confirm that one benefits from using machines at,
say, midnight? Or is that a peak hour in Spain? If so, when isn't? 4pm??
Talking of prices . . .
. That old bugbear – car insurance in Pontevedra province. Not, it
seems, the highest in Spain. But almost. If a driver lives in
Pontevedra, the premium would come out at a typical €439 a year for
third-party cover - €229 more than the same policy for the same
driver living in the southern Aragón province of Teruel, where motor
insurance is the cheapest in the whole of Spain. Click here for more
on this. But not for an explanation of why we are shafted.
And here's another
question for those living in Spain – Ever heard of Amazon Premium?
No, neither had I until I saw a €20 debit to my credit card this
morning. As of now, I can find no evidence that I signed up for this.
When it comes to
speaking Welsh, there's a major divide between North and South Wales. In the former, it's widespread – as I know from spending
many summer holidays there – but in the anglicised latter much less
so. Need I say that the Welsh nationalists – understandably –
want to change this and have made the learning of the language - in various degrees - compulsory throughout the country. Even for the kids of those (Welsh) parents who
don't want this for them. Their only way to stop this is to
vote in the party who says they'll reverse the law. And then the
issue of language will become a political potato for this party. And
things will go backwards and forwards every 5 to 10 years. Just as it
does here in Galicia. One wonders how the kids gain from this.
A final question . . .
Do young un-castrated cats disappear for days on end? I'm a
bit annoyed that - after I went to the trouble of putting in a cat door for the one who adopted
me months ago – he now seems to have pissed off.
Finally . . . This is a
foto of the window of the supermarket in which last year I used to
buy the turrón they had left over from Xmas 2015. It cost either
€1.80 or €1.90, depending on the wind. But now I see it's only
€1.00. So, which Xmas is this lot left over from, I ask myself.
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