I love living here, and by and large am completely content.

However, nothing is perfect – even the Garden of Eden had a snake! Today’s snake in my own personal Garden is indicators on cars. In particular their use – or lack of use.

The roads are, in the vast majority of cases, good. Roundabouts abound, and are to be encountered at every available spot where it is possible to insert one. Many eons ago, when I was learning to drive, I was instructed in the use of the indicator. The indicator, I was told, was to indicate to other road users or pedestrians which direction you planned to go. Thus others would know what you were going to do – turn left, turn right, pull over, whatever.

As far as I know, all cars are manufactured with indicators. It is a little stick on the side of the steering column, the manipulation of which will result in an orange flashing light on both the front and rear end of the car. Yet there seems to be an anomaly affecting a large proportion of Spanish cars. Or maybe Spanish drivers, I’m not sure.

This anomaly is: Either a certain number of Spanish cars are manufactured without this little stick, or a certain number of Spanish drivers have no idea what it is for. There is, I suppose, a third possibility – Spanish drivers are psychic, and therefore know which way everyone is going, so have no need of indicators.

But I am not psychic. It annoys the hell out of me to be holding my car at a roundabout, trying to second-guess whether the approaching car is going to turn off or carry on round. In fact it destroys the whole point of a roundabout, which is to keep traffic moving. The same applies at junctions. Do I pull out, or is the approaching car going to turn off?

And then there’s the ‘Have you just stopped for a chat with your friend, has your car broken down, or are you simply double-parked?’ Do I pull out and overtake, or wait patiently until you move on, or Hell freezes over, whichever comes first? It’s bottom dollar that whichever choice I make, there is a more then evens chance that it will be the wrong one!