One of the advantages of growing old is that people stop noticing you. It is kind of like our superpower. Just ask Miss Marple.
This is true here when we are in big towns like A Coruña but not so much in smaller places. It is not obvious that people are watching us but sometimes we notice signs that they are.
A great example of this is four years ago when we were walking into Porto Espasante, where, as it happens, we will be in three days. Anyway later in the day we were talking to some old guys, as we do, and one of the men pointed to Wynette and said “She is slower than you.” We wondered how he knew this and he said he had watched us walking into town several hours earlier.
On this trip Wynette called up a bar so see if they would be open the next day. (We are skeptical of Google’s open/close times.) The guy appeared to be mystified why we would want to know this but said yes. Apparently such questions are not common in small towns in Spain.
It is not uncommon for us to do things that seem unusual to the locals. Our feeling about this is that it is a good thing. We figure the people will go home and tell their spouse about the funny thing some Americans did that day. So we are providing entertainment for them.