NZ on the World Stage (or at Least on a Spanish Balcony)
![Sitges, Spain:
World Cup flags](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/1006/af6174e15bc7d8826bc2.jpeg)
The World Cup has enabled New Zealand to take new steps on to the world stage, or at least on to the balcony of a small hotel in a Spanish village.
This is in Sitges, south of Barcelona, where an enterprising hotel owner this weekend decided to attract attention (when there's a slump in tourism) by hanging flags of World Cup countries ... and there in the bottom right hand corner, NZ is represented, though in a smaller (more modest?) size than the others.
Still, it's a rare occasion for NZ to be on view in Spain - such visibility is usually restricted to kiwifruit in supermarkets ....