Spanish Foibles

In my Camino PowerPoint presentation that I presented to St. Basils in October 2012 and it St. Nicholas earlier this month, I noted some Spanish quirkiness.
In particular:
...That the air-vents in Spanish taxis don't seem to work (or there is some reluctance by the driver to breathe)
...That Spanish bathrooms don't have air-vents or exhaust fans.

Well, the three taxi rides that we have had - two in Madrid and one in Astorga have rung consistently true, with me gasping for air after a few hundred metres and needing to wind the window down...my wife says I am like a dog with open windows in a car ;-)
As for the lack of ventilation in bathrooms, I was proved wrong two nights ago, with the bathroom in Acebo having a small vent to an outside wall. Tonight we are staying in a relatively new place, perhaps only a couple of years old and the bathroom has neither a vent or exhaust fan....it does have a window....which is not normal in hotels and a bonus here!
Don't get me wrong, I love Spain, there customs, their food and the people, but there are a few amusing things of note.

Tomorrow is perhaps the toughest day walking yet - only 13km, with the first 7km pretty-much on the level, but the last 6km, we climb about 760m. That is a 130m climb per km or in other terms almost 1m climb every 7.8m distance - I think those maths are roughly correct. I'm not sure how that compares to Kokoda, but I'm sure Compass will let me know in the morning.
I'll give you an update tomorrow, WIFI access assumed here, off to sleep now, buenas noches....(TL).