Who leaves the old road for the new knows what he loses but does not know what that is, the proverb warns. It is along these lines that Mugardos, a Galician town on the north coast of Spain, nearly 6 thousand souls, he thought, to revive the local economy a bit 'too little dynamics, the solution to exit the tunnel was to look back.
Other than €: in those parts has been resurrected dear, "old" peseta. Over 60 businesses have decided to return to accept the old currency - the euro as well, of course - thus inviting all those who were still available the old banknotes, abandoned nine years ago and replaced by the single European currency, to pull out of the drawer and spend. I mean: in this phase of crisis, it's on the picky, we accept everything, do not worry.
Despite initial skepticism, the idea seems to work, reports BBC online. The recession is the mother of invention, then. For some time the Galician town is overwhelmed by a deep crisis that affects the whole region, thousands of shops down shutters, two million jobs went up in smoke. The owner of a hardware store and small appliances said that recently he had presented himself as a local man with an old bill that had 10 thousand pesetas found in the house. He did not know how to use the currency - he thought - had fallen into disuse. Shortly after he had become the "happy owner" of a brand new toaster. Even the currency return. Sooner or later.
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