Opening Paragraph about Vigo and environmental issues for a made-up magazine article that'll probably never exist:
At the bottom of Europe and at the top of Spain,
there’s Galicia; and at the bottom of Galicia and near the top of Portugal,
there’s the city of Vigo. Vigo has the geography of San Francisco and the
weather of London. This gives the city, near the Atlantic and with a history
tied to the sea, a lot of its charm. It’s a big and busy city. Big enough that
you can escape the smell of the sea when the tide is low and the sound of the
seagulls whenever they’re doing what seagulls do – unless there’s a storm, then
they will come to you no matter how far from the coast you get. Vigo wasn’t exactly designed with traffic in
mind, that’s why driving there is a nightmare, and yet it seems everything about
the city forces you to get in the car. Everything is far away, or far up, or
far down. If it’s close, it’ll probably rain. Or it won’t, and the cold will be
even worse. Little known fact is that most of the battles in the history of
Galicia have been fought trying to get a parking space in Vigo. If you’re
thinking about moving to Vigo, don’t worry. You’ll get used to it and you will
learn to live with it. But, say, you’re working on a project. A project to help
the environment by convincing people to use the car less and, instead, go for a
walk or use public transportation more – which, due to its geography, in Vigo
means only buses. Now your project has become a quixotic nightmare. Except,
don’t worry, because it hasn’t. You found a solution.
