Snippets from Spain

Tourists welcome―sometimes

When the residents of our building heard in the spring of 2019 that some Americans had bought an apartment on the first floor, they passed a resolution banning short-term rentals like Airbnb and VRBO. When I got wind of this, I took it as an insult. We were coming to be neighbors. Nowadays, if the topic came up, I’d write the resolution myself.

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