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Tuesday, March 08, 2005

A driver in the Basque Country has challenged his speeding fine on the grounds that the Basque police don’t swear loyalty to the Spanish state and are, therefore, illegal. Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice.

Building a house in Spain is a long and frustrating process. This seems to be because coordination via project management is still only a concept here, rather than a reality. My guess for the average time it takes is 2 years but there’s one property down the hill from me which is now in its 5th year of construction. Close to it are two other plots where work recently began. One house is going up very quickly and the work – at least in this early stage - seems surprisingly continuous. On the adjacent site, though, things some time ago went into that state of complete suspension which seems to periodically hit all building projects in Spain. Maybe there’s a connection between the continuous work on one site and nothing on the other.

More fun with a Spanish web site tonight, this time one belonging to a bus company. On the home page they trumpet that they've improved it and, sure enough, there are nice new graphics of a coach wending its way from right to left. This, though, appears to have had the predictable effect of slowing things down – at least for those of us without ADSL. But I've no idea what accounts for the fact that I was continually told the 12th March 2005 was earlier that today’s date. I gave up in the end and tomorrow will go the old fashioned route of driving to the bus station. With luck, the office will be open.

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