Well, you do get one free with every straightjacket.
The local population were largely Roman Catholic, but they found a substantial South American immigrant population who were shunned by the local Spanish, and wanted something more than bells & smells. They would have met in halls, homes and cafes, rather than having their own building, and may not have had a high profile.
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I always carry a sharp lock knife with a corkscrew that’s a Laguiole style €8 Spanish copy. It’s super sharp, but can be sharpened on a rock or a doorstep if necessary. It cuts bread or indeed anything very well and the spiral corkscrew has yet to be defeated. Today it was also used for cleaning the plastic edging on our glass fridge shelves.
If it’s a decent blade then a rock or doorstep will not do it any favours. Arm yourself with a credit card-sized diamond honing tool; you won’t regret it.
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Interesting. We often encountered gypsy churches - very lively, and great music! - but we were very much the outsiders.
Thanks, but as I wrote above, it’s not a Laguiole, so perhaps I can be a bit more casual with it, Actually it usually gets sharpened on a butcher’s steel after a walk, but I do have a little honing tool in my rucksack, because our randos usually end in a picnic. However the rucksack usually stays at home when we travel - living in the country, we normally holiday in cities.
Interesting? Where di I find one of these please?
When I’m driving I actually travel with a corkscrew, a bread knife, a pair of scissors and a fly swat. If I’m flying, just the scissors and the fly swat. They are spare ones that live in the suitcase then I can’t forget them.
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After our first corkscrew incident, we also pack a list of useful things like that as well if we’re not flying.
At any tool specialist or (I’m afraid) more readily at somewhere like Amazon:
https://amzn.eu/d/21yx5QI
I lost a Swiss Army Spartan knife when the ban was introduced - had gone to a conference in the Netherlands (where I met my wife to be) the ban was introduced while I was away and my knife was confiscated on the return journey. Though in view of the overall outcome I wouldn’t complain.
However, few years later I accidentally smuggled a Swann Morton surgical scalpel and ten razor sharp blades onto a Turkish Airlines flight. Not wishing to lose the handle, I left the blades in Istanbul.
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We always used these at work with the very pointed number 11 blade when modifying PCB tracks on prototype boards. They were superbly sharp and much more controllable than the standard PCB track cutters.
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Interesting, back in the pre-digital day, over 95% of UK graphic designers preferred SW (albeit with a 10a blade) to a US Exacto that was made for their profession.
Prior to our move to France I bought a box of 100 10a blades and many years later am still finding new uses for them.
Yes, xacto were an alternative, the standard tubular twist to lock hobby knife. Swann Morton scalpels were so much better though.
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We always take a tin opener. If there is one it’s usually useless.
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Does one need a tin opener these days? I thought everything came with ring pulls?
But it’s frustrating when the ring pull comes off in your hand!
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There are many delicious products which come in a tin… with no ring-pull… and a decent tin opener is essential (as we discovered only the other week) 
That is appalling.
That ‘There are many delicious products which come in a tin… with no ring-pull’ ???
That seems a rather extreme reaction 
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