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Articles like this really bring home how bad things are in Europe...
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/send-your-shoeboxes-to-spain-in-charity-rally-1-4343801
Misguided. Why not donate the money they would have spent on travel to a charity closer to home if they feel like helping people?
Charity Shoebox Britain?!
So people will be driving to a country which has done more to reduce its consumption of fossil fuels than any other I can think of in fossil fuel burning cars to deliver tat they probably don't want or need.
I was in Léon recently which seemed to be thriving. Hardly any for sale signs, lots of active people, hardly any yoof hanging around, all the signs that the black economy is thriving as ever (unofficial "taxis", prostitutes, non-declared family members working etc.)
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Apparently there are a fair few more people using soup kitchens and the like out here (compared to a few years ago), but to suggest Spain needs charity shoeboxes from the UK is going a bit far!
I went to Madrid for one day last week for work and everything seemed normal...although i wasn't there very long!
One thing I did find out at the office I went to is everyone tends to have a longer sit down lunch. They took me to an Italian restaurant where lunch was 15 euros (starter, main and drink). They said this is what people do in Spain, apparently not many people will just go out to get a sandwich or make their own lunch.
I told them I think i spend too much on my lunch as it usually costs £4 to £5 each day, there's no way I could spend the amount they spend each day!
Apparently there are a fair few more people using soup kitchens and the like out here (compared to a few years ago), but to suggest Spain needs charity shoeboxes from the UK is going a bit far!
I certainly didn't see any signs that they needed someone to donate deodorant and the like.
On the face of it, this does seem a pretty odd charity.
Or a successful job creation scheme?
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One thing I did find out at the office I went to is everyone tends to have a longer sit down lunch. They took me to an Italian restaurant where lunch was 15 euros (starter, main and drink). They said this is what people do in Spain, apparently not many people will just go out to get a sandwich or make their own lunch.
That's the exact mirror of the conversation I had today over lunch with a colleague, he mentioned the possibility of going to work in the UK, but one of the problems was the awful lunches that people ate 🙂
Four hours is a long time to kill when finances mean a sandwich in the park and the shops are shut. If you have any ideas of exciting things to do in a four-hour lunch break in Barcelona then kindly hop into a time machine, go back to 1989, the walls of Montjuic, and make the suggestions to the couple bouldering.
Four hours is a long time to kill when finances mean a sandwich in the park and the shops are shut. If you have any ideas of exciting things to do in a four-hour lunch break in Barcelona then kindly hop into a time machine, go back to 1989, the walls of Montjuic, and make the suggestions to the couple bouldering.
Sounds like they'd already worked it out. Personally, I go to the gym.
On the face of it, this does seem a pretty odd charity.
What's odder is that it's also the official charity of the bicycle industry.