Heating up

Not only is Madrid heating up (quite literally, one shower a day is not enough!) but the protesters are heating up their campaign with a running programme of lectures for which they have a creche, a soup kitchen, toilets, a tatoo and piercing parlour and a range of shopping opportunities as well as their own newspaper. There are usually at least two TV channels filming and we have had to duck to avoid them.

This week they have added a Love and Spirituality tent. The council have provided them with their own recycling bins.Sunday is the day the police have set to evict them so we hope it will end as peacefully as it has been run so far... I am making no predictions though!

One friend we meet weekly for English conversation admits he gave them the megaphone they use to communicate (don't tell my poor Spanish teacher who struggles to speak above it!)  However this guy is a lawyer so we realise they have support from all levels of society. "May you live in interesting times!"