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| Ministry of Agriculture, Madrid |
Spain
is to Mexico as a thoroughbred racehorse is to a donkey—that’s not a
mathematical question, but a description. Spain is elegant and refined, its
people dignified, reserved, polite and helpful. Though the country is
experiencing many of the financial woes that seem to multiply in warm climates
in Europe, you don’t see it in the city or the country. No panhandlers at the airport
or train station, plenty of modern facilities, and fantastic highways. Of
course, you’ll pass more than a few bridges to nowhere and roads that simply
end without a destination, thanks to the economic melt-down; compared to
Naples—there’s no comparison. The desperation doesn’t seem to be there.
That said, I had a GREAT time, hanging with my friends and meeting the Brit ex-pat community (or at least part of it) in the Alpujarra. “Alpujarra”, I’m told, means “the defiant ones”, as it was the last stand of the moors before they were driven out of Spain, and a hotbed of resistance during the Spanish civil war. I couldn’t help but think of the film Sexy Beast, about ex-cons retiring to southern Spain. None of MY acquaintances, of course.
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| Museum advertisement, Madrid |
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