Saturday, March 29, 2008

What Does A Positive On Clear Blue Look Like

A bus trip to Tossa de Mar in Tossa de Mar

last Saturday as I strolled through the streets of Tossa I'm almost a miracle. Is it one of the great coaches at the beach promenade, that is, where you never actually see a bus. Well, I have to add that the local police was already standing beside the bus and the driver asked his passengers to hand but the luggage and then to follow them to the station.

Well, the majority of the hotels in Tossa lie close to the beach or in the older part of town, so on very narrow roads, some of which are even with the normal car to drive hard, but with a coach, pure madness! Although the town Tossa forget the city for buses by traffic signs to block, then the bus driver, nevertheless, have expected too much or something because of a corresponding amount of alcohol in the street have seen double-wide.

On the other hand, I understand, of course, passengers who wish to get their luggage like to be given a little closer to the hotels, because sometimes several hundred meters have to be covered on foot, as in other places traditional hotel pick-up service seem to be very or quite simply does not exist. Guests are welcome indeed, but why offer the service. PAID the bus passengers already, although up to 50% less than the "normal" guests. But after 500 meters march with their suitcases, they are done only once and can hardly complain yet. ... With whom complain too? Most knew the tour operator the problem but held back the information because the bus has to be so full of need. Tourism is a business and no pleasure.

But motorists are in Tossa surprised so often when in front of a hotel parking (for 1 car!) Limited to 10 minutes, is it in Quick procedure looking to throw their luggage from the trunk and then have a free parking area at least 300 meters from the hotel allowed, which is associated in July and August, sometimes with greater difficulty. But come anyway just to Tossa sporting guests, how lucky! There are even accessible hotels that are just not able to drive a larger vehicle disabled.

And then the driver can practice even in the obstacle driving, an experience that many would spend a fortune. The hotels in the Vila Nova are in fact only achieve very narrow streets which are really pedestrian zone. Only the approach to the hotel by car is allowed, as this could close the hotel before it reaches the higher water level in 50 years. And, it really is an experience to squeeze his vehicle through a crowded pedestrian zone best. Some of the pedestrians to take this intrusion into their territory, unfortunately, some in person and allow the vehicles small dents or scratches with the key bit of the paint. If at least one souvenir that must not pay.

I love and feel Tossa me very well here, but many a time I wonder if the city (and hotels) should do something that a tourist in any situation in Tossa feel comfortable. If you consider, of course, that the tourism association offers nor a German website and some of the hotels to their German customers expect a translation of the site or hotel prospectus, which can be described only as "patched up", then one should perhaps not be very surprised.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Roughly Epiphone Casino

water

Each year runs from fall waiting for rain. During closing hotels and restaurants in Tossa their Porten, take some of the owners of their vacation and the staff again have to spend a winter without work, the nature is waiting for rain because after the hot, dry summer months, the reserves at the end and even the tap roots of cork oak and strawberry tree can hardly contain the vital liquid.


But do birds, insects, spiders and all the other animals around Tossa, like the people, liquid to survive. And every year, the liquid water is less, less of rain, the reservoirs are empty.

The first thought would be now, of course, the hotel building, construction of apartments and the opening up of campsites to put an end, especially as climate change increases the water shortage every year, but it unfortunately splints as if every tree was sacrificed every plant and animal before the fact is accepted that the limit is reached. Still, any foreign investor is welcome to Tossa and the cranes are the first "crane" to point to a new building, which is again a user of water and nature goes to the most important.

This year, in Catalonia already off fountains and the paths taken steps to reduce water consumption (the residents). Gardens should not be poured and private pools must remain empty. Farmers will have to live without income and the nature is something more to die.

Just a thought at the moment is important for the Government Tossa. How to Hide s water shortage before the hoped-for tourists, and how to make every tourist satisfied, not with ease (which sometimes lacking), but with water. Of course, the salt water showers are powerful, even if every tourist to die for a plant and an animal. Water is vital, not only for tourists.

But perhaps there are other solutions such as education or the showers and faucets to control time, Towels switch no longer a day ... and maybe it would be useful to the tourists already preparing for the morning, for every visitor to the inhabitants of Tossa preferable means to create hatred for tourists. destroy nature also means not to think about tomorrow, for sophisticated tourism will also keep the Parc de Sa Riera and a walk in the Cadiretes can, there may not ride a bike and see only dead trees.

water to have is a privilege, but one should remember that there were animals and plants in Tossa long before the first tourist to the way in this small town was.