Is this acceptable Spanish behaviour?

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I have rented a house for the summer in the canaries, it is in a small village, there is a small one way road between the house and the sea and we have a pool and there is an almost 5 foot wall between the pool and the road. There are quite a few tourist though not loads as there are no hotels. When we are in our garden ( and when we are not) people walking past keep hanging over our wall pointing at us and our house and acting like we are zoo exhibits!! I understand people will walk past and might glance over but I am talking about practically climbing on the wall, I have tried saying hello but they then act like I am being crazy! Is this normal Spanish behaviour? I spend quite a lot of time in the canaries and I have never encountered this before.

I agree with PPs that it's just curiosity!

I imagine a lot of holiday villas/rentals are actually lived in by the owners during the rest of the year. Stayed in a villa in Greece once and it was quite obvious that the owners lived there when they didn't have holiday bookings.

Maybe your wall climbing ladies are just a sort of Neighbourhood Watch on behalf of the owners

Update- just been to the tapas bar, and fished discreetly about people looking over my wall, the locals are mortified but have said that this is typical of the tourist behaviour - we are quite close to a couple of popular tourist attractions and restaurants and tourists think they are well within reason to look over and decide they might like to stay there in the future, so no dead people hidden there - thankfully, just rude tourists, hoped this was the case as local people have made us really welcome andy children have already been to invited to a couple of the local children's birthday parties, we do speak ok Spanish have been going to night classes for a while as I really want to integrate and feel part of community as we come from a town in Scotland so used to everyone knowing our business xx

Sounds odd!