I honestly feel like every time I have brekky in a cafe in Madrid, these 'mobility agent' guys are there in full force. They must keep 'em running!
This isn't funny; it's just a 'good onya.' The few people in Spain who are awake at about 8.30am are those waiting outside the employment office (well, there probably are a few other people awake, I guess). Poor Spaniards: the job market really sucks here at the moment. If I am to believe the finanzas.com site, the number of unemployed people in Spain is currently more than the population of New Zealand. 4 712 098 unemployed people in Feb 2012, with Andalusia being the hardest-hit region. According to a Google graph based on Eurostat data, overall employment is at 23.3%.
And this article's title says it all: Youth Unemployment Is At Over 46%.
This was taken in Marbella (well, Puerto Banús). I can't quite work out what they were thinking with the sign. The 'le' from French, the 'Drugstore' from American English, and then 'supermercado' from Spainsh. Curious.
I think I've blogged these signs somewhere before, but they're just so amusing that I have to do it again. How many places do you see these kinds of signs as you enter a national highway? (I don't even know if they appear outside of Andalusia!)
No horses on the beach. Ok.
Plus, given what I have seen of the Spanish attitude to putting rubbish in the bin, the second one could be hard to enforce, too.
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