I’m been trying to categorise the searches which take people to my blog. The easiest column is for those which are related to Spain or Galicia [e.g. ‘property in Galicia Spain’] but which are in no way amusing; I won’t bore you with these. Then there’s those with at least a tenuous connection with Spain; these may or may not bring a smile to the face. And finally there’s those which have absolutely nothing to do with Spain but which include a word or phrase that’s occurred in one of my scribbles. The funny thing about these is that my blog sometimes appears early on a in a list of zillions. I suppose this is why it then gets hit. More of these later but I guess the oddest example is ‘especially for gays’. This brought up more than 1,280,000 citations, of which mine was actually the first. I don’t know whether to feel honoured or frightened.
For now, here are some of the searches which have at least some connection with what I really write about:-
Living as an artist in Galicia
Spanish sexual habits
Brothels in Spain
Brothels Vigo Spain
Shirt importers in Spain
Film lines Spanish English translations
Spain’s chances of success in the next Olympics
Bikinis in Galicia
Galicia Spain the Greek [Don’t ask me]
El Mundo Spanish lottery
Catalunian nationalism [So, at least I have one intelligent reader]
Catalunian dictionary [Possibly him/her making a return visit]
Catalunian Mandarin
Crossbows from Spain
Louis Figo smoking
Commercial topless Spain law [No. 1 again with this one, albeit out of only 751]
Guarra [= slut] Spain
Exhibitionismo [= exposing oneself]
On a more serious note, Galicia’s economy has grown to the point where it now exceeds the cut off point for EU grants to poor regions. This threatens funds for 2007 onwards. Local politicians have said it won’t be ‘fair’ for Galicia to lose out this way. Whereas it was, one supposes, perfectly fair to receive someone else’s cash for 30 years or so.
Even more seriously, the government has roundly rejected both the Pope’s criticisms of their liberal policies and, closer to home, the suggestion from the Archbishop of Madrid that the capital is mired in sin. As if to rub things in, they have today announced grants to the Muslim, Jewish and Evangelical ‘confessions’. Implicit in this grouping is the very Spanish belief that Protestantism is not a branch of Christianity but, in fact, an entirely different religion. We’re still waiting for the Reformation here. Though the Pope may well think it has just arrived.
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