We´re in Spain now
There were several things that I quickly noticed in the first stop of my home-for-the-holidays odyssey (Amsterdam airport)
-Even from the airplane I can see that cars have a sensible size. Meaning they are smallerr than those American monsters.
-Heineken beer ads everywhere.
-Toilets (which I never call restrooms and that are only bathroom if they are in a house, not in a public building) being labelled as LADIES rather than WOMEN. I am aware of the politicall incorrectness of using "Lady", I word I only use in jokes. As in, "I´d use a swearword but I was trying to make you believe I´m a lady". Still, toilets labelled as WOMEN still feel foreign, unfamiliar.
And the one thing that made me think "yes, I´m in Spain" was people smoking out of designated areas. I hate it, I hate it when people go "oh, yes, we´re back in Spain"..... "because in this country of ours...." when anything goes wrong. There is efficient and inefficient people everywhere. And the girl that complained of the bus making a bumpy route from the plane to the airport has never taken TCAT´s number 16, of that I´m sure.
-Even from the airplane I can see that cars have a sensible size. Meaning they are smallerr than those American monsters.
-Heineken beer ads everywhere.
-Toilets (which I never call restrooms and that are only bathroom if they are in a house, not in a public building) being labelled as LADIES rather than WOMEN. I am aware of the politicall incorrectness of using "Lady", I word I only use in jokes. As in, "I´d use a swearword but I was trying to make you believe I´m a lady". Still, toilets labelled as WOMEN still feel foreign, unfamiliar.
And the one thing that made me think "yes, I´m in Spain" was people smoking out of designated areas. I hate it, I hate it when people go "oh, yes, we´re back in Spain"..... "because in this country of ours...." when anything goes wrong. There is efficient and inefficient people everywhere. And the girl that complained of the bus making a bumpy route from the plane to the airport has never taken TCAT´s number 16, of that I´m sure.