Day after Fiesta

Supermarket shopping is never fun, especially in Mercadonna  the day after a Fiesta,  Spain's  equivalent to a Bank Holiday.  They have one a month  for religious festivals  or  just  so they can close down and no one work.

The Mercadonna  day after  a holiday  and in mid August  is bedlam.  Short , slow  Spanish shoppers  talking  gossiping  blocking aisles.  Fortunately they are Hobbit stature  so  I can lean over them  and ignore their ignornace  about being in the way.

Food and drink  is cheap in Spain.   I don't need hot food or drink, the climate is hot enough.  So I barge my way round the store  , taking no Spanish prisoners, who would want them anyway, they are of zero use,  Peasants  most of them.

July and August in Torrevieja

Mahem

Madrid Beach  they call it.  Madrid is 4 hours  drive away.  It must rattle at the moment, seems they are all down here. On the beach  like sardines in a tin, till 8pm.  Noisy, short, most of them cannot drive, cannot negotiate  a roundabout, cannot indicate either. Did I mention they cannot park either,  they sling the car near a kerb, or on a zebra crossing  or across an  entrance. They cannot ease of the accelerator at junctions either, the car  nose dives as they hit the break.  Dangerous in charge of a donkey,  why on earth did they give them keys to a car.

Handy being short like a  Hobbit, it means they can get more on the beach  and more in a room,  use smaller settees and beds. All the shelves in supermarkets are low to, to help the pigmy race.  

Torrevieja means Old Tower.  No houses here till 1802, and as soon as they built them an earthquake knocked the lot down in 1829.  Then Franco bombed the place in 1937   killing 80 odd.  Today the biggest single population of Brits  outside Britain is here 15%  of the population,  out of 100,000.  Spain has 50%  of its own seaside resort. They rest are mainly Scandinavians, and Northern Europeans, some Russians,  and scum from Morocco.

But the Real Madrid people are low life. No respect, call them gutter snipes They even sit on the side of the road kerbstones, They Know Their Place. They throw away anything and everything. Spain must be getting higher Because of landfill. They have no concept of recycling. They are litter louts , trashing the place. Must be awful living in Madrid, With these lazy good for nothings. Noisy till 2am, like Lemmings they will all go back to where they come from end of August and normality will return