Spending a weekend in Spain reminded me of a great difference between the two cultures. In Spanish restaurants the house wine is the signature of the restaurant, its cheap, its very good, and is the way restaurants attract people and advertise themselves. In the UK, on the other hand, the house wine is normally the cheapest wine the house could find, and quite often the mixed leftovers from the night before. Another interesting difference is that while in Spain beer is served in small glasses, in England its in buckets.
Is it merely a curiosity, and what does it tell us about these two so different cultures?
Nice! Wow you have been in Spain, i'm sure you had good weather while there because we are having great sunny warm days around here, Iberia, since a while 
hmmmm... I just realized now that even though I used to live in England for so many months I never had a beer... Maybe that's why i always felt i don't fit in