I am glad the hatchet has been buried...
While it is quite hard to enter this restricted world joining an airline is no easier. I do not subscribe to the nationalistic argument. It is not about nationality or hair colour but about attitude, commitment, making yourself useful and connecting with people. People hire other people they like and feel they can trust. This can be achieved regardless of where you are from (certainly within Europe). It is true that language is a factor but surely, whether working as a pilot or as anything else, if you want to succeed in a foreign country you must learn the language. This does not mean getting a linguistics degree but being able to comunicate. Not that hard if you can be bothered to put some effort into it. This will besides allow you to enjoy your time there much more.
My, outsiders, experience of AG flying is that a lot of accidents do happen. I hear of them all the time. This is often due to power cables and flying very close to the envelope as WWW says. In an environment like this you make your own safety and it is up to you to keep out of trouble. Low hours unfortunately means less experience to avoid potential dangers, less confidence to stand your ground, less resources once trouble begins...This can be offset by taking extra care and being double cautious but the increased risk is there. In Spain you are unlikely to get given the chance to start with a relatively tame J3, the very minimum being a 260hp paunee and more likely an airtractor. The type rating is just more red tape. 150 hours learning the different types of crops is unlikely to help you recover an incipient spin clse to the ground in an overloaded or perhaps bent aircraft. That is why, type rating or not, they most often ask for a whole load of taildragger hours.
If towing gliders means learning to fly gliders, what is the problem? most gliding clubs work in a cooperative basis and joining and learning to fly is relatively inexpensive if you are prepared to join in the work. The efficient type of flying you need to learn to stay aloft longer in a glider can only help you later on. Join a club, help out, drive the retrive tractor, serve teas at the bar, talk to people... and you will eventually fly the tug. No doubt about it!Last summer there was a chap from Wales desperately looking for somebody to fly his tug...
Nothing comes free but with sufficient goodwill and determination most reasonable things are possible.
If you really like the idea of banner towing I can provide you with the name and number of somebody in the UK that is a small operator. Who knows?
Cal