Wednesday 13 June 2018

I got my 'certificado de concordancia' and went off to the police station to update my details. If you have any experience of Spanish bureaucracy you will know that it is often accompanied by a feeling of dread as you wonder what bullshit they will spring on you this time. The policia who dealt with me looked at both passports and told me that my name had been written ANNMARIE in one of them and ANN MARIE in the other so this threw a doubt as to whether I am actually the person in either. I said the equivalent of 'are you taking the piss?' which seems more persuasive in Spanish, something on the lines of 'are you touching my bollocks' which sounds even better when it is said by a woman whose got some.

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