Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.
Christopher Howse: A Pilgrim in Spain
Life in Spain- Some good news to start today. Though it's certainly not accurate where I am at the moment.
- Iconoclastic vandalism?
- Here's The Local with what its readers say are the best apps for improving your life here. The one for splitting bills might well be the best of these . . .
- And why autumn/fall is the best season in Spain. I favour no. 6.
- An unhappy statistic - One sphere in which Spain leads the rest of Europe is in the number of 14-21 year olds hooked on sports gambling and online poker.
- Sephardic Jews have a right to citizenship in Spain but applications have been far fewer than expected. It's reported here that a 'prosaic' reason is that there's: A yawning gap between the spirit of the Spanish citizenship law and its bureaucratic and civil administration. The application process is daunting and difficult. No one who lives here can be at all surprised at this.
- The latest city ordinance is that all vehicles - from scooters to cars - will be limited to 10kph. Or 6mph. I'm certain this will be applied to car drivers but whether the police will do anything about maniacs on scooters, bikes, e-scooters and e-bikes I'm not at all sure of. Vamos a ver.
- Although the work on O Burgos bridge is yet to be finished, they've acceded to demand and opened a passageway through the middle of it. I'm guessing this purely a coincidence only a couple of days after my setting a bad example by ignoring the barriers at each end.
- At the city end of the bridge, a zebra crossing which was a few metres away has been moved to right at the end of the bridge. Being the same dimensions as the latter, this could well be the widest zebra crossing in the world. And so more risky than average for pedestrians.
The USA
- An interesting take on the Saudi imbroglio and the USA's possible next move(s).
Finally
- A couple quotes noted years ago and just found in my files:-
- Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind: Gilbert Seldes. 1893-1970
- Those to whom nature has denied an aptitude for the enjoyments of taste are long-faced, long-nosed and long-eyed. Whatever their stature, they have something lanky about them. They have dark, lanky hair, and are never in good condition. It was one of them who invented trousers:- Jean-Anthelme Brillar-Savarin 1755-1826.
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