anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun
De eerste aan mij bekende commerciële afbeelding van ingestorte gebouwen toont de gevolgen van de aardbeving te Pompeii in het jaar 62. Zover ik weet zijn er geen eigentijdse plaatjes van onze laatste aardbeving, die in 1428 de stad van Ripoll verwoestte - hier begint de leunstoel rampindustrie eigenlijk pas met de verovering van Barcelona [...]
Sorry to break my normal Dutch-Catalan-English flow, but this is important: we’ve got a winner for the cowbike drawing competition!
The winning artist, Jan-Willem de Bruijn (7) from Rotterdam, notes in his entry that “The Netherlands seems to be the country with the highest density of roadsigns in the world. We have signs for everything. One [...]
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“I think the sherry trade could learn a lot from their cousins in Portugal. But of course that’s only if the sherry trade sees any benefit in visitors to their bodegas. I often wonder if they really do.” It’s the old Spanish paradox of shops whose owners seem prepared to go to quite extraordinary lengths to avoid selling you anything, unless that something is guaranteed to malfunction at the first opportunity. Experiences recounted last night of finally persuading a well known department store to relinquish a sewing machine which immediately jammed, the replacement literally falling to pieces whilst being bagged. Why?
A double reflection makes up the man who was born on the thirteenth day of the moon, lost his
throne on the thirteenth day of the moon, and fought the battle of Waterloo on the thirteenth day of the moon:
I wonder if Josephine’s astrological babblings didn’t cause Napoleon’s natural military interest in the moon to be unduly romanticised.
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