Shave Machine

I can’t get over the number of really poor translations from Spanish to English which we keep stumbling on. Valdepeñas offered some really nice examples. In the commercial district of this town’s very pleasant downtown, we discovered a clothing store called “New & Clothes”. I assume, given the fact that the Statue of Liberty graced their logo, they meant it to be a pun on NYC, with the Spanish word for ‘and’: New y Clothes.

Even better, our bizarre hotel, La Plaza, offered a couple of nice lost-in-translation moments among the complimentary toiletries. The best was the “Shave Machine”, though “Sponge of Bath” was also pretty entertaining.