So, where were we? Having lived here for over a year now, and hopefully for a little while longer yet, one of my favourite things about Spain (or at least this part of Spain) is how, for the want of a better word, old-fashioned lots of things are. I hadn’t appreciated it before I came here and I mean it, almost entirely, as a compliment but moreso than anywhere else I’ve lived there are customs, values, ways of life that are reminiscent of Britain 30+ years ago, which in some ways is quite nice. By way of an example, today is a Sunday and there is, so far as I know, one supermarket open in the city (which, annoyingly for those of us too disorganised to buy food more than a day before we plan to
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