{"id":14403,"date":"2026-01-13T10:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/?p=14403"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:55:48","slug":"en-ruta-everything-that-somehow-works-or-doesnt-when-youre-on-the-move-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/en-ruta-everything-that-somehow-works-or-doesnt-when-youre-on-the-move-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"En Ruta! \u2014 everything that somehow works (or doesn\u2019t) when you\u2019re on the move in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">When you\u2019re on the move in Spain, things happen that never feature in any driving lesson. Not because it\u2019s chaotic, but because it\u2019s human. A roundabout turns into a conversation. A pavement becomes a choice. A scooter becomes an emotion. An e-scooter can be a lifeline \u2014 or exactly the opposite. Maybe one day I\u2019ll tell you about that week without a car. No drama. Just hassle. That story will come.         <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I was standing at a roundabout in Valencia the other day where nobody seemed sure who was supposed to go first. Not because there were no rules, but because everyone had their own logic. A man in a hatchback made a hand gesture that in the Netherlands would probably count as an official traffic instruction, but here felt more like a greeting. A woman on a scooter slowed down as if she was about to start an intimate conversation with the zebra crossing. Behind me, a bus driver steering with one hand and telling a whole story out of the window with the other \u2014 accompanied by a smile that offered more direction than any road sign ever could.    <\/p>\n<h4>You either get it, or you don\u2019t. <em>\u00bfPillas?<\/em><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\">That\u2019s normal here. It\u2019s not a mistake, not a failure, not anarchy. It\u2019s a system you don\u2019t learn through theory, but by watching. You understand Spain on the move \u2014 or you don\u2019t. There\u2019s nothing in between.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pavements are a good example. In the Netherlands, pavements are for walking. Here, they\u2019re places where things happen. Conversations. Parking experiments. Dogs with opinions. Sometimes there\u2019s a scooter parked that isn\u2019t really parked \u2014 just resting for a moment. Sometimes you walk in the road because the pavement is full of tables, and that\u2019s not dangerous but socially appropriate. You have to know where you belong, and sometimes that\u2019s simply somewhere else. You could say the pavement makes a suggestion. Not everything is an instruction.        <\/p>\n<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14305\" src=\"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/onderweg-in-spanje-2-770x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/onderweg-in-spanje-2-770x770.jpg 770w, https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/onderweg-in-spanje-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/onderweg-in-spanje-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/onderweg-in-spanje-2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/onderweg-in-spanje-2-370x370.jpg 370w, https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/onderweg-in-spanje-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Google Blues<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\">And then there\u2019s Google Maps. In Spain, Google Maps is almost always right. But the road wins. Not because technology is wrong, but because one-way streets here have emotions. Sometimes Google sends you down a street that exists according to Google, but according to the street sign only starts existing next week.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Other times Google chooses a route that\u2019s two minutes faster, but twelve minutes worse for your blood pressure. Sometimes the map is accurate and reality just breathes differently. It\u2019s not that anyone is wrong \u2014 there are simply multiple realities side by side, and you have to decide which one you\u2019re following.  <\/p>\n<h4>Without a car<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\">Then there was that one week without a car. Not heroic. No journey of discovery. Just inconvenient. I thought I could do everything easily on foot or with e-scooters. Which is true \u2014 until suddenly it isn\u2019t. Until you\u2019re standing at a bus stop where the bus arrives according to the timetable, but according to the driver only after he\u2019s finished his bocadillo.      <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And then you find a scooter showing 22% battery, which feels more like it has 3% motivation left. You\u2019ll get there. Or you won\u2019t. Then another day comes along. Nobody dies. In a strange way, that\u2019s reassuring.     <\/p>\n<h4>Climate<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\">Meanwhile, you notice how climate controls traffic. When it\u2019s warmer, people take corners more gently. When it rains, everyone seems to be re-sitting their driving test. Not to fail, but to discover: does this car still work in water? Yes, usually. And if it doesn\u2019t, within two minutes someone appears who knows how to lift a parked car as if it were a shopping bag. Nobody questions whether that makes sense. It just happens.       <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For a long time, I thought Spain was a puzzle. These days I think it\u2019s more like a game whose instruction manual got lost. That doesn\u2019t make it worse. Sometimes it makes it better. It forces you to pay attention, to tune in, to make contact. Not with words, but with one second of eye contact over a dashboard. That moment when you think \u201cI\u2019ll go\u201d and the other thinks \u201cgo on then\u201d, and suddenly traffic moves like a sentence without grammar \u2014 but everyone understands it.      <\/p>\n<h4>Does it work, or doesn\u2019t it?<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\">Maybe that\u2019s the core of being on the move here: it doesn\u2019t work according to the rules, but it works for here. You don\u2019t have to like it. Even if you think it\u2019s ugly, all you have to do is recognise that it exists. And that it works \u2014 in a way you won\u2019t learn anywhere else.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>En Ruta!<\/em> appears every other Tuesday. No tips. No instructions. I look around. You look along. 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