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We are Dave & Bev we run a property findind business from the Uk. We have been back and forth for the last 20 years and have a house in playa flamenca house by the pool.

Green Grass
Saturday, November 24, 2012

Spain in the '60's didn't have a terribly good electricity supply, power cuts were frequent. No-one had irrigation systems on timers, that would have been useless. Water was often in short supply over the summer anyway. We visited Barcelona and were taken to the famous football ground. As a young girl totally disinterested in the game I remember little of the visit except the groundsman's enthusiasm for the pitch. He was proud of his work, and looking back on it, probably rightly so. We were told, through an interpreter, with extreme pride that this was 'the greenest grass in Spain'. And it probably was. The groundsman however seemed dismayed by the lack of response of the unimpressed British tourists - afterall we were all very used to green grass!

Bev

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Memories of Spain in the 1960's
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Memories of Spain in the 1960's

 
As a child I spent many happy times in Spain. I remember being fascinated by the way of life and culture which seemed so strange to the English back in those days. My favourite memories are seeing all the donkeys in the straw hats or sombreros hard at work. Donkey carts were as common a sight on the road as a car, but you saw them often working in the fields pulling ploughs, cart loads of veg or oranges, in fact anything that needed to be moved. Tractors were all old fashioned, many pre WW2, and blelched black fumes as they trundled down pot-holed roads and tracks. It never went without comment when we returned to the UK how smooth the roads were!
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