Cowboy Cops Kill Bull

The Town Hall at Las Pedroneras in Cuenca, denied that a bull escaped during the start of last Tuesday's fiesta and was shot by local police 36 times, to kill it.

But this video that turned up on YouTube shows the allegations to be true.

It seems the bull escaped from a garage while the lottery to select the bulls for the next bullfight was going on. In a scene from Keystone Kops the Professionals move in shoot the scared and much wounded animal, rather than wait for a vet to arrive who would use a tranquiliser gun.

See the video here.

Spains Coastal Towns Growing With Foreigners

A report on Typically Spanish News says that half of Spanish municipalities are growing in size thanks to the foreign population.

Not surprisingly most of the growth can be found along Spain's Mediterranean coastline.

There are no surprises in the list of towns that have grown due to foreign population, not for anyone who knows the Spanish coastline.

Popular retirement areas such as Benalmedena, Torremolinos, Mijas and Fuengirola are all areas on the Western Costa del Sol that are on the list. Anyone who has visited these towns, from my experience can see straight away the huge number of English that are living in these places.

I am always surprised at how many of the Brits here don't consider themselves to be foreign.

But I digress the remainder of the list is Roquetas de Mar, El Ejido, Torrevieja, Orihuela, Estepona and Gandia.

El Ejido actually has six times more foreigners than local people!

Pesetas still being changed to Euros

Six years after the official change of currency for Spain, from Pesetas to Euros, the Banco de Espana reports that people are still bringing the old currency in to be exchanged.

Around thirty people a day still bring in pesetas in note or coin form to be changed into euros.

The bank's director also reveals that they offer a service to exchange burnt or damaged euro notes for new ones, so long as at least half of the note remains intact.
In some cases seriously damaged bank notes are sent to technicians for approval, before exchange.

Its not a surprise that the bank note exchanges take place as the euro notes are worn out after a few transactions!