Having had a wonderful experience with the public health system in Tordesillas (slick, efficient, thouroughly nice!), I slammed full-face into nonsense bureaucracy in Salamanca.

A fresh dressing was, perhaps, 15 minutes’ work (cut old dressing off, bathe the wound, pat it dry, apply antibiotic ointment and dressing and bandage it). The paperwork (when I did get to the top of the queue) took over an hour – notwithstanding the letter of instruction from the clinic in Tordesillas. E111, passport, address of hotel – I wondered if I was going to have to provide my DNA along with 3 character witnesses. . .

Bad news is that the wounds are a lot more serious and will require refreshed dressings every 2 days for as long as a month. 😦