Travelling Spain with Two Dogs & a Parrot

I'll catch-up with the story of our travels from where I left off last September, but we are still in Spain & after a couple of months of summer, have a few personal musings:

A few observations from a few summer weeks in Spain:

• You cannot obtain cold water from the cold tap
• You take a shower in this tepid water as it's at a comfortable temperature
• Rarely do homes have ovens or vacuum cleaners
• There are lots of ants
• You don't leave food out, or leftovers on plates, or you'll have ants just where you don't want them
• There are small ants that work in teams & march in long trails to/from their nest; there are bigger ants who seem to go it alone & massive black, proper ant-shaped ants striding out on their mission
• It's fascinating to watch ants drag/push lumps of edibles towards their nest
• Ants bite
• Flies bite
• Jumping spiders are fast, & they also bite
• Wasps are attracted to dog meat
• Agua de Colonia is safe for, & used on babies, but will stop insects dead instantly, quite literally
• Damp washing dries in a few minutes, sheets off & on the bed in the same day
• You don't have to think what to wear in anticipation of changeable weather, the same light clothes & sandals, day in & day out
• You lightly wash the sweat out of clothing before the item is dirty
• You don't wear much whilst at home anyway - time to ditch my summer wardrobe?
• You wake to day after day of hot, clear sunny weather
• When will it rain?
• It's impossible to sit in the sun, unless very early or late
• You retreat into the house in the heat of the day, shutters down
• You spend more time sitting outside enjoying the cool of the night
• You live between inside & outside, under the shade of the terrace in the breeze
• A damp cloth on the back of the neck works wonders to help keep you cool - especially when the fan is on it
• Feet in a bowl of water with ice cubes will also make you feel cooler
• I can't remember the last time I shivered
• Less PG Tips are drunk & more water, orange juice & beer
• It's great to sit outside at night & be plenty warm enough, nicely cool after the heat of the day
• The nights are lovely & cool so I stay up later, then sleep in & miss the deliciously cool morning
• I need a siesta each day to enjoy both early mornings & late nights - how can I do my work around that...
• Bin men work in the middle of the night
• You seek shade when deciding where to park the car
• You don't need anything, but visit the shopping centre just to enjoy the aircon
• It's a pain to have to take rubbish to the municipal bins & drive around with a bag of recycling in the back of the car for days on end
• I sit more, just sitting & not doing
• We go out more & enjoy a beer &/or a meal
• Spanish drivers are impatient, don't indicate & do tailgate
• Motorists speed & keeping-up with traffic - we got a speeding fine
• Spanish people are friendly
• There are fields of sunflowers
• What isn't there to like?