Intro to this blog

The UK is a great country with great people. A wonderful place to be. I would dare say one of the most important cultural centres of the western world. Here, the production of world class theatre, opera, music, literature and scientific research is stunning. However, these noble activities are not everything Brits are up to. Much of the energy they don't spend in the subjects mentioned above they use it in trying to show the rest of the world they are different, specially different from continental Europeans. It is enough to have a look at the newspapers to see that they love contrasting taste, laws, regulations, news, anything with continental Europe. However it is not their laws or taste for food or clothes or not having the euro or driving on the left that makes them different. The difference is somewhere deeper in the cultural roots and can be appreciated in the way they have to understand what surrounds them. This difference is reflected on almost everything from common sense to written laws resulting in situations and regulations difficult to understand to the newcomer or traveller to whom they will look absurd. It is the aim of this blog to bring out some of these "absurdities" and comment them. On each of them there will be many different points of view, all of them valid and at the end what looked absurd might look clear as water... or may be not.