text: Four decades after it exploded , tourism on the islands overheated , leaving in its ashes a forest of massive , block-booked hotels and beach-hugging villa communities with few discernible ties to Spain 'places lined with German bier halls , English fish n ' chips joints , and low-rent bars and discos .
  
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  Because of the tourism boom , the islands are strewn with artifacts of foreign culture that bear little relation to Spain .