DRIVING IN ROUNDABOUTS
Previously, road users in roundabouts did not have priority, but the usual right-hand rule applied. Nowadays, everyone who is inside the roundabout has priority.
However, do not take anything for granted because the older generation of Spaniards do not have it so easy to remember that a new law has been introduced that they must follow.
Be extra careful at roundabouts for another reason: here you often see cars that are in the right lane and should turn left at the roundabout.
And the worst part: they do not use turn signals that we are all used to from northern Europe.

DIFFERENT PARKING MORALS
If there is a shortage of space, when you are going to park or if you are already in a parking pocket, the Spaniard has his own solution for this.
Then the only way is to "push" in or out and the Spaniard does it until he succeeds.
Unfortunately, this leaves some traces in the form of dents on the cars both front and rear and on the sides.

THE DRIVER'S HORROR
When the Spaniard gets behind the wheel, something happens. The transformation is total.
And it is also in most cases completely unjustified.The normally balanced José gets a completely different character in the car.
He can never lie quietly behind your car, not even in city traffic.He drives wildly around you and then he rivets before turning into the next street.
When you drive on the highway at higher speeds, José also becomes a crazy car driver.He comes at high speed and lies down a few meters behind you and stresses you out.
At the first best opportunity, he quickly turns out and drives around you.
But he does not move on at high speed, no, now he slows down and drives in front of you and lies two meters behind the car in front and the procedure is repeated.
Inside the cities it is the same, except that now he is 30 centimeters behind you!

DISCOUNT ON FINES
In Spain, there is a very unusual but quite sympathetic way for northern Europeans to get people to pay their fines on time.
You work according to a system which means that if you pay the fine within a certain set time (usually within two weeks) you only pay half the amount.
It makes a big difference to pay 50 euros instead of 100 euros, and the system can also make the original fine seem like usury if you do not pay on time.

Text borrowed from Sven F. Källström, living in Spain for over 30 years and author of five books about Spain.