It never ceases to amaze me that a local person can find their way around Spanish bureaucracy in a matter of weeks, but for us foreigners it can and often does take months to achieve the same outcome.
Is it double standards, or a lack of knowledge of the system? I wonder how Katerina Ann Bilek, a 35-year-old British woman who lives in Barcelona, feels about the system? According to a report in El Mundo yesterday, she has been ordered to pay for damage to a police motorbike that knocked her down (when she was ten weeks pregnant) in Barcelona city centre on the 7th December last year.
Ms Bilek was struck in a bus lane near the Plaça de Catalunya, knocked unconscious and sustained a broken collarbone. Her injuries were so serious that she was ordered to rest for a month and had to undergo a course of physiotherapy, 52 sessions at her own expense.
Now, to add insult to injury, she has been sent a bill for €604.80 euros from Barcelona Town Hall to cover the repairs to the motorcycle that hit her.
I keep trying to justify incidents of this nature, by convincing myself its just part of the “Spanish Experience” we have come here to enjoy.
B-!!-cks it’s Double Standards
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