Some people tan, others become lobsters

Here in Andalucia, most Spaniards look evenly tanned all over and having seen them in their bikinis which sometimes move around, I think it's safe to say most of them are in fact evenly tanned all over.

In fact, it is usually only the people from Andalucia who are evenly tanned. Other Spaniards often look tanned until they take the t-shirt off and then you notice colour differences.

But what I find really amusing is the holiday makers who come to Spain from the UK, Netherlands, Germany etc, who are mostly pale ghosts and even worse when they put their bikinis on, and then they sit in the sun for hours and wonder why they look like a lobster.

It's been amazing to watch some of the kids just turn brown like the Andalucians, but the parents don't usually spend so much time outdoors I think, so they really suffer.

One of our neighbors was here for a week and on the first day they were all red and sore, by the second day they were blistered, on the third day they started peeling, and when I asked why they do this their answer was "Because when we go back home we'll have a nice tan".

All that pain just for a tan, no thanks, give me a natural tan after months of just doing regular outdoor things and taking care not to get burnt, none of this lobster look for me.