I was listening to the radio this morning and somebody mentioned seeing a bumper sticker on the back of a motorbike which said, “If you can read this my girlfriend has fallen off.” I thought to myself, if that was a Spanish bike it would say “If you can read this my girlfriend, her mother and the dog have fallen off.”

Over the years we’ve had a fascination with Spanish people and mopeds. I used to pass a holiday complex on my way to and from work, and in the mornings I’d see an army of cleaners heading off on mopeds, usually four per bike, complete with mops, buckets etc. However, the best sight yet was in Nerja. We saw four adults, a child, a dog and a dining chair being carried along atop a decrepit, old Vespa. ¡Viva Andalucia!