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Sunday, 23 December 2007
Back in Brown's Britain and NOT Smoking
I arrived back on the 19th December after having to deal with a 90 minute flight delay due to bad weather in Amsterdam. I don't know how that effects a flight from London to Madrid, but there you go.
For over two weeks, I can sit and relax without having to push myself on crowded Metro trains and running around a big city with photocopied pieces of paper to simply 'entertain' business people for a couple of hours. I don't have to think if there is going to be a class or not. I also don't have to worry about having to travel at all if I don't feel like it. I live For these two weeks, I don't have to worry about trying to communicate with people in another Language. Almost everyone in my home town speaks the same language.
What's more, I can sit in a pub or cafe without being in a haze of foul cigarette smoke. I can sit in pubs with carpets and nice comfortable chairs, as opposed to rickety bar stools.
One of the main things I miss about Britain is being able to go for a drink without sitting in massive clouds of smoke. The smoking ban is working and makes life more comfortable for the majority of us. In Spain, it seems that everyone smokes wherever you go. It seems that smoking is a classless habit in Spain. It doesn't matter what the age or class of that person is. If that person is an adult, he or she is more likely to smoke than people from Britain or the US. There have been attempts to bring in a similar ban on smoking in Spain. However, they openly gave bars the choice whether to allow smoking or not. Most bars simply decided that they were not going to allow their customers to break a habit of a lifetime.
For over two weeks, I can sit and relax without having to push myself on crowded Metro trains and running around a big city with photocopied pieces of paper to simply 'entertain' business people for a couple of hours. I don't have to think if there is going to be a class or not. I also don't have to worry about having to travel at all if I don't feel like it. I live For these two weeks, I don't have to worry about trying to communicate with people in another Language. Almost everyone in my home town speaks the same language.
What's more, I can sit in a pub or cafe without being in a haze of foul cigarette smoke. I can sit in pubs with carpets and nice comfortable chairs, as opposed to rickety bar stools.
One of the main things I miss about Britain is being able to go for a drink without sitting in massive clouds of smoke. The smoking ban is working and makes life more comfortable for the majority of us. In Spain, it seems that everyone smokes wherever you go. It seems that smoking is a classless habit in Spain. It doesn't matter what the age or class of that person is. If that person is an adult, he or she is more likely to smoke than people from Britain or the US. There have been attempts to bring in a similar ban on smoking in Spain. However, they openly gave bars the choice whether to allow smoking or not. Most bars simply decided that they were not going to allow their customers to break a habit of a lifetime.
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Spanish Flu
The weather is pretty mild here as one can imagine. however, the evenings are getting pretty cold. This means that there are lots of horrible viruses spreading around the city. Whenever I tavel on the metro, I find that at least 10 people are coughing their guts up. i have been a victim of this myself, as I´ve had a cough for over 3 weeks.
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