Andalucía has now joined
certain other regions of Spain, including Mallorca, Navarra, Cantabria and
Aragón, and has decreed that one must wear a face-mask when
outside. It’s a bit of politics – now the health responsibilities have been
passed (at their insistence) to the regional governments – mixed with a lot of
common-sense.
However, we are now in the
high tourist season, such as it is this year, and many potential visitors may
be thinking that it won’t be like other years. Indeed it won’t, with rationing
and booking bits of beach and half the pools closed and no disco dancing (or
apparently singing!).
Others won’t take kindly to being fined for not wearing their face-mask, which
– needless to say – is only allowed to be removed when one is sat in front of a
beer or a chicken sandwich.
It being the season, we have
been inundated with stories
of Brits leaping off roofs of hotels, or jumping
onto the roofs of cars, or coughing on their fellow diners, or falling
about drunk in one or another way: the subject for yet another indignant story on the Spanish news.
The Telegraph
claims
that ‘Spaniards are most opposed to the arrival of UK holidaymakers, with
nearly two thirds (61 per cent), keen on Britons to stay away this year, 15
percentage points more than any other European nationality…’.
Do other nationalities feel
as bad about their own fellow-citizens as we British resident in Spain seem to
feel about ours?
Spain needs the tourism, both
for the income and the jobs, but no doubt it could do with a bit better
behaviour from its guests.
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