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Both those points are some of the wisest words that ever came out of Pedro's mouth!

I avoid Brits like the plague Ray......always have. Not that there's many here now!

Done Pedro!

@Renegade.......as you can see, for the last year or so I've been having to wear glasses to ride and drive! I think I spent a few years not really seeing that well on bikes and cars.......but it never dawned on me I needed glasses. I thought I only needed them for reading. Thing is, it creeps up on you very slowly and you don't notice!

Yeh......I remember the Hong Kong Flu! Don't think I had it!

I'll admit to throwing an old rag over it once or twice!

Yeh....that's a great old clip! Wasn't life so much simpler then?

Light isn't good.....this one shows it better.....

Yeh.....been meaning to do something about that. They'll probably rub off......but I keep forgetting.

Yeh.....I like them as well! At 66 I'm fortunate that I have no mobility or flexibility issues......in fact I'm probably more flexible than most people half my age. I've had dodgy knees for nearly 30 years now due to sports in my youth......so I've learnt to compensate for them. But you never know......I may well end up back on a Scooter one day.

But you don't have a Strom @Muddy?

It takes a lot of concentration Bob!

@Rogelio Fernandez-Rojo

Great shots @alfalfa

After 65 days in the hole! Only out for about half an hour because I had to be available for work.......but it was something!

Hi! ?

I can only speak about rural Andalucia........and they have a very different mentality to Spaniards in other areas. If something isn't Andaluz......then it's shit! And if it's Catalan then it's shit and somebody should get stabbed, or at the very least, twatted. On the whole their level of education isn't very high, and they're unable to grasp new ways of doing things. It's like the ways of the past are set in stone. What is going on in the outside world goes right over their heads.......I'm sure there's some old people here who don't even know Franco is dead. There is a serious degree of laziness with many.......generally if you want something done speak to a woman. The emphasis on leisure time is top priority......and much of that leisure time will be spent boozing. But with families......not a pub crawl. And unlike Brits they don't get punchy......they're good drunks so to speak. To say they're laid back is an understatement.......their house could be burning and they'd just shrug and say "no pasa na".......in correct Spanish "no pasa nada". They're very noisy and gutteral.......which, coming from Swansea, suits me just fine. In fact my level of noisy and gutteral is way above theirs and they actually look up to that! Don't ask! Sounds pretty grim doesn't it? But I gotta say that if they like you and accept you there's nothing they won't do for you. And ask for nothing in return. This sort of environment doesn't suit everybody. But we've been here since 2005, and lived in a lot of places in Britain before that, and I can tell you there's no other place we'd rather be, and no other people we'd want to live with. And one important thing here! We did not change or try to integrate at all. Reason being that we were temperamentally a perfect fit for Spain in all respects.....in many ways we were more like Spaniards than Brits. It's like I say to Brits who ask me about moving here.......it's not a matter of whether Spain is right for them. It's more a case of are they right for Spain? And in most cases it's no.

That's Catalan @Pedro! Say that here and you'd get stabbed!

You need to check this out @Tym........... @Buckster has posted a photo! ?

The Strom is now ridiculously clean........even by my standards. I'd run out of things to clean by Week 3.

Any photographic evidence to validate this assertion?

No hanging round outside public conveniences then @yen_powell?

Tomorrow I can ride again, I can leave the town, but I can't leave Granada province! So tomorrow morning (work permitting) I've got to take the wife to the shops in Baza! Can't go to Albox to get tea bags (we're out of them) because we'd be entering Almeria province. It's a long way from normal.......but it's a step in the right direction! What's changing for you now? Can you ride? Are you restricted to where you can go? Are you going back to work?

Very high apparently?