Right of way
John, from Encebras, stopped me in the street the other day and, very kindly, said he enjoyed my blog. He also said I should write about why Spaniards walk in the street and not on the pavement. The only problem with this idea is that I don't know why. Mind you I've never let not having the facts at my fingertips stop me writing a blog, so here goes. I don't really think Spaniards do walk in the roadway in preference to on the footpath. At least not the majority. That's because most Spaniards, over 80%, live in Madrid or in towns and cities especially along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts. If they tried walking in the road their life expectancy would plummet. I've never particularly noticed that Spaniards in Murcia or Alicante dice with traffic any more than Londoners or the good people of Workington. They certainly don't dice with traffic in the same way that Egyptians in Cairo and Giza do. My guess, though, is that John was thinking about Pinoso sized pl...