Its an excuse to skive off in the afternoon.

Its also extremely inconvenient.

For example, my wife works in a travel agency in puerto banus, She has to leave at 9am, battle the traffic from marbella to puerto banus to be at work for 10am.  She then works until 2pm, whereby she then has to battle for another hour to get back to marbella. Then she spends an hour or so grabbing a bit to eat only to do the whole thing again.

This means she does not get home until at least 9pm at night.

So her work day is more or less 12 hours.

Its a load of crap in my opinion....."oh its too hot to work".......yeah right, never heard of a fan? ice water?

I have been living and working in my apartment in Downtown Marbella for the last 10 years and it does not have air-conditioning. I have to rely on a small fan to keep me cool. Yes, it gets hot but I persevere.

I work 6 out of 7 days from 9am and finish at 10pm , non stop, I have a piece of fruit whilst sitting at my desk in between and only stop to have a slash.

I just reckon the Spanish are so used to the old siesta thing its an excuse now, oh yeah, let not forget that like everything weird the Spanish do "its a tradition".

Well, the same way I am told "go back to your own country" whenever I moan about something, I say "If its too hot for you Spanish boys and girls go and move to an country where its cooler, like Sweden or Russia".

Don't get me started on the hours that banks keep here.