Hair of the Dog
We're still in January, and the days are still cold and short. It's not good outdoors weather for the most part. So, tourist towns are still servicing their own residents, quietly awaiting the warm weather and the onslaught of the hordes. There are some places, like Barcelona, that have tourists all year, but the tourists of January are not the same as the tourists of July. In July and the other summer months it seems that the black sheep of each house travels abroad. Some areas, such as Magaluf in Mallorca, and Lloret del Mar or Barcelona in Catalunya, seem to attract them like flies. At Magaluf there is drunk carousing almost every night. In Catalunya some cities are copying the drinking free-for-all. A working-class neighborhood in Barcelona has gone on to the next level of sick and tired with all the tourists that rent cheap apartments and travel there just to get drunk and act like uncivilized toddlers. All-night parties that won't let the neighbors rest, and people ...