Driving / Weather / Index for September

The introduction of the licence points system has given Trafico a bit more teeth, and they’re preparing to bare them over the next fortnight, with checkpoints and speed traps in place, some of which will be hidden, others announced. This is good, and what I’ve been calling for, but it depends how they implement them. Put them by roundabouts and I don’t see how they can be effective; place them randomly along carreteras, different matter. Having said this, if Trafico would act, even the roundabout can catch some out. Here’s an example:

There is often a Trafico control at the roundabout by the Esperanza complex in Playa de Muro. So there was this Sunday. I was going along at 60, there was a bus ahead, just by the roundabout and starting to move out. A taxi overook me - at speed. The driver presumably hadn’t appreciated that the bus was on the move. The taxi just managed to squeeze between the bus and an oncoming car, went staight across the pedestrian crossing, onto the roundabout and away - all at excessive speed. Trafico? Didn’t bat an eyelid.


Weather report. Perfect. Very warm, the sea on Sunday was flat until mid-afternoon when the wind whipped up, as it often does in the afernoon. October. Wonderful weather. Makes you realise why you live here. And then this morning there was a thick fog, or more likely a mix of sea fret and heavy mist coming from Albufera - all that coldish air colliding with warm water. But it felt like an English autumn morning, which was kind of nice, and then the sun kicked in.


Index for September 2006

Administration, in - 3 September 2006
Alcúdia Fair - 30 September 2006
Balearics economy - 16 September 2006, 30 September 2006
Balearics Government - 30 September 2006
Beaches - 3 September 2006
Communication - 26 September 2006
Crime - 8 September 2006
“Euro Weekly” - 30 September 2006
Guardia Civil - 6 September 2006
Immigration - 16 September 2006
Language - 6 September 2006, 8 September 2006
Mañana - 26 September 2006
Matas, Jaume - 30 September 2006
Open Holidays - 3 September 2006, 16 September 2006
Palma Airport - 9 September 2006
Parking - 6 September 2006
Police - 6 September 2006
Pollensa Council - 30 September 2006
Population - 16 September 2006
Puerto Pollensa - 3 September 2006
Rental accommodation regulations - 9 September 2006
Skin cancer - 13 September 2006
Smoking - 3 September 2006
Stupid fat white men - 21 September 2006
Taylor Woodrow - 8 September 2006
Tourism economics - 3 September 2006, 9 September 2006, 16 September 2006, 21 September 2006, 26 September 2006, 30 September 2006
Weather - 6 September 2006, 13 September 2006, 16 September 2006, 26 September 2006
Websites - 26 September 2006
www.pollensa.com - 26 September 2006