Last of the Spanish Wine

Spanish figure in a cityscape

I have been trying to take a photo that expresses how I feel about contemporary Spain after travelling through it for the last two months. I think this is it: a not so healthy Spaniard ambling past a half demolished apartment block covered in graffiti. The façade faces a strikingly modern low-cost rental development in the shadow of Santiago De Compostela cathedral. The clash of symbols (pun intended) is deafening. Spain, like Portugal and Greece has run up some pretty substantial debt. The building has stopped but the energy for reform is still there. For the moment, people are just waiting hoping the system will right itself.