Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Roundabout

We have our temporary home in a tiny village 10 km south of Valencia called El Saler. It is quite nice there. Better than in the city. Much better than in the city. Less cars, less people, and a lot of space. Except on Sundays, when everyone from the city goes for a long picnic day in the nature reserve Albufera in which El Saler is situated. The other days of the week we more or less have the place for ourselves.

Anyway, around the world a roundabout frenzy has been going on for the last few years. Every single town in Sweden and France are filled with roundabouts. Security reasons. I totally buy that. But that El Saler should get a roundabout was far-fetched. I mean, it already has two roundabouts, one at each side of the village. Now they are actually constructing a third one in the centre of the village. I have followed the work which soon has come to an end, and the result is quite nice. The best thing is that they've got rid of the high kerbs, so now one can easily cross the street with push-chair or wheel-chair. This morning it was time for the decoration in the centre of the roundabout. And it turned out to be... a boat! Gee what a surprise...

There it is, the roundabout with its decoration - a boat.
I wonder what the six (!) people standing around it are discussing.

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