A group of ninety students from the Royal Holloway University in London have spent a week in Nerja as part of a convention involving the academic institution and the Local Council. The objective was to analyse various aspects of local life.
The students have been have been working on various projects, such as the morphology of the river, particularly following the September 21st floods, the tectonic structure of the locality, the substrata, the Nerja Caves, agriculture as well as human issues such as the integration of foreigners into the community.
On the subject of integration, the students conducted interviews with local residents and came to the (startling) conclusion that they are basically divided into two groups. There are the ‘few’ who who are genuinely interested in Spanish culture and want to integrate into the local community and there are the ‘many’ who are just in it for the weather and have no desire to integrate. Well, who’d have thought it?…