[icebraining]

Well, half my family is Spanish, and I travel there every year for a few weeks, and at least in Galicia, small shops that don't accept bank cards are still reasonably common, yes. Even in Vigo, which isn't exactly that small, it's not hard to find a few.

Oh, and that was certainly true of Lloret de Mar as well, just a few years ago. Supermarkets and such all accept cards, but the bazaars (run mostly by easterners, from what I could tell) mostly didn't.