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In TV they were having a broadcast about the “property ladder”, the traditional way of British people of gaining some wealth by buying small property early in their lives, selling it during rising prices, getting some bigger property and so on and how nowadays young people have barely a chance of climbing that ladder due to a mixture of immensely blown up property prices and low wages. British government tried to solve this by giving land for very low prices to private companies and letting them do the rest. This ended in the private developers building houses and selling them on the free market. Did not work out quite as intended….
All this sums up to English people in general not being that cheerful and for me nowadays not feeling that happy when traveling through this otherwise beautiful and interesting country. So I was quite happy when I could leave the midlands and get a chance to spend a few more days in one of my favoured Celtic parts of the UK, that coincidentally offered a chance for some surf too. Wales and the Gower peninsula was my destination.
British Plumbing
On the motorway south I followed a BBC broadcast about – a then just possible – Brexit. They took Greenland’s exit from the EU a couple of years ago and compared it with a possible British exit. Greenland. Comparing what happened to a country with a population of about 70.000 to give an idea about what would happen in Great Britain. Thank you BBC, that helped a lot.
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