Coming to terms with things Catalan ..
Catalonia is definitely a different place: Part 1 Take something as standard as a light switch...In my cliff top apartment in San Feliu de Guixols I have two standard lamps....just to be precise: by standard lamp I mean a light on a long pole higher than myself, with a shade and a base and a way of switching On or Off. These switches are usually managed by fingers, flipped up or down or sideways. But not here. My standard lamps - which are considerably taller than myself - have foot operated on/off switches. These are small rectangular objects on which there is a 'protuberance' which has to be slid from side to side to the switch the lamp on/off - or dimmed. At first I worried that the object would slide over the tiled floor as I attempted to move the switch. I would clutch the standard part of the lamp and bend down to switch the switch with my hand. Later I got impatient and tried to work this switch with my naked foot - tiresome to have to take off a shoe to sw