Here in Spain it´s the opposite, or at least in the South where I am. Most are noisy and very verbal. Right now I can here some young people singing flamenco style in the street and it´s midnight.
People not only talk to you all the time, they want to kiss you for the slightest reason....which I´m still not quite used to.
Oh dru I feel faint. I can´t help you I´m afraid. I would die if I were in your position. City girl and all that.
I saw a mouse once in my house, many years ago. I was home with two babies, husband at work, and it was the middle of winter. I had to wrap up the babies, and get out of the house. I stayed out for 8 hours until my husband returned and found the mouse.
Not really, I understand where you´re coming from.
I think European men are more into this kind of thing. When I travelled around Europe I discovered it was more usual behaviour, more so than in the UK.
Here in Spain, men always hold the door open for me, or help me put on my coat. It´s sweet really and is done out of respect more than anything.
In the same way, elderly family members are still generally looked after in Spain without shoving them into nursing homes.
As a working women, independent, and undoubtedly a supporter of equal rights, if a man helps me on with my jacket, holds open a door, or pulls a chair out for me, I adore it.
Oooh ven, I´m about to go to bed, but I bought some strawberries and unsweetened, creamy Greek yoghurt today which I´m going to have for breakfast tomorrow.
Spain stinks? Where are you living exactly to think that?
I have a fabulous life here, as long as I stay away from ex-pat communities. Ok, it´s not as cheap as it was, which is why lots of pensioners are going back to the UK, but for me, a working woman in the city with only Spanish friends in the main, life is still of a much higher quality than in the UK.
Medical treatment is far better, the food is to die for....and the wine.... the sunshine, the friendliness, I could go on.
Spain is wonderful, and I intend to stay here for the rest of my life.
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Loyal old me eh!
RE: Happy Birthday Tina / sxc666
Sorry I´m late.Feliz cumpleaños cariño.