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Also Spain is suffering from the crisis. About 18% people jobless. Lots of beggars in the streets and selfbuilt cartonbox houses. Even if you deduct the big informal workforce in Spain probably there are still 10% real without job.
I suffer only by taking Metro instead of taxis. Madrid has a very efficient clear system. There are even info points and people for selling tickets.
Went by metro early this morning to catch the train to Burgos as station on my way to Paris another 1.200 km approx.
Spanish people are readers. Not only lot of bookstores but also people reading in the Metro. Real heavy hardcovered books.

Since the bombing in trains in 2004 Spain checks all the luggage before entering the train in the same way as they do at airports. People are used to it and don t complain.

The language is still a problem. Even if some spanish speak english.
When I say Burgos they dont understand and only when they see it in writing on the ticket they repeat Burgos. In their way.

During civil war Burgos was the base of gebneral Franco rebel government.

You don t see it when you look at the people but early Neanderthal man occupied the sites around Burgos.Some 800.000 years ago.

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[cristina]

ciao Bert, following you ... ciao :-))