- You can never spend more than four days without seeing the sun.
- The shops close from 2pm to 5pm because it is “siesta” time.
- You get free tapas with every drink you order.
- The apartments are narrow and dark and most of the time the only thing you can see through the windows is the interior yard.
- It’s midnight and there are still people (and even children) in the streets.
- You can suddenly decide to meet up with someone within half an hour and everything is okay.
You start planning what you are going to do on Saturday night on Saturday afternoon.
- Someone makes you try some food telling you to guess what it is and you end up eating pork skin and blood sausage.
- There is always a strike or a demonstration somewhere.
- Reading the newspaper becomes the most depressing part of the day.
- You see 3km long lines at the shops that sells Christmas lottery (from October on).
- You can find sandwiches with pretty anything inside (Spanish omelette, calamari, chicken cutlet,…).
- The fryer works much more than when you’re at home.
- You start having lunch at 3 pm and dinner at 10 pm.
- Every single English world is translated and hotdogs become “perritos calientes” (literally hot dogs), popcorn becomes “palomitas” (“little pigeons”), bacon becomes “beicon” and ketchup “ketchú”.
- Cases of corruption are discovered and nobody really seems to worry.
- The world seems to end when the temperature is below 0°C.