Almería

I've been to Almería in 2002, not knowing what I saw. Today, Erwin Wagenhofer's documentaries take me back to my memories of the region.

In Wagenhofer's film We Feed The World I saw the same pictures that I took with my camera in 2002:

Participating in European Union's Comenius project, I spent a whole week in the South-East of Spain (here are our project results - actually one of the first HTML pages I've ever built, with frames and all the good stuff...).

We even made it into a local newspaper:

I was excited, and everything I saw was fine and good and beautiful and nice, like I thought my photos were:

Of course, we visited one of the plantations:

At that time, I had no clue that this was a globalized industry that brings wealth to any other country but the people in the region.

Now I know, that 80% of Spain's coast line is obstructed with uninhabited properties, just for one reason: provide value for global investments.

Almería is not only the setting for many Hollywood classics but also for the ongoing financial crisis thriller, whose victims are the ones that can only watch and pay for it.

Datum

25. October 2009