I like cultural tourism and some leisure tourism too. But the mass tourism in Spain has lead to the destruction of most of the coastal area. I don't blame tourists for it, but especulators. Sadly, this massification was the result of the policies in the 50s and 60s when Spain was an isolated country with few other means to develop. Now it constitutes a major industry.
It goes without saying that the British are a class of their own as tourists too. (Hello Biggles!
). An ignorant herd that spoils those places that they step on.
I remember years ago reading on The Sunday Telegraph a special report on Spain, entitled
"Where the Spaniards retreat when the British invade". It was a various pages report on areas of hinterland Spain, still unpolluted by the Brits. A cold shiver ran through my dorsal spine as I realized that that might mark the beginning of the end for the unspoiled rural spots in Spain.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–