It’s worse in Perpignan, where they’re still going on about 1659. (I hope you all know that Ceuta and Melilla are not the only Spanish enclaves. Despite what the nutter who wrote the badly spelled bits of the Wikipedia thing says, Catalan-language public education is becoming available and public administration is not necessarily monolingual. This [...]

Eulàlia Petit@Barcelonetes is serialising the life of her great grandma, and it looks like being a great read. This is where it starts in Catalan; try the Comprendium translator if you prefer English, French or Spanish.

I’m still researching the new Filth walk, which I hope to market multilingually in conjunction with another blogger. One of the things I’ve been looking at is the profusion of illegal, self-built housing, lacking in all basic services, which exists on old factory terrains and in other uninviting places. I met a bunch of Moroccans [...]

Meteoclimatic.com is a brilliant site which provides real-time data from amateur weather stations across Spain and its various dangly bits. I particularly like the historic feature (hit Estaciones then a province, and you’ll see a calendar below the fold; navigate back in time using the arrows on the right). Compare it with the miserable crap [...]

This ties into Hugo Chávez’ use of the race card in the runup to Halloween (“Halloween is a gringo custom, [and] the use of terror is particularly typical of gringo culture. Terrorism, creating fear among other peoples, creating fear among one’s own people”) and, slightly less convincingly, into the codpiece post. I guess people never [...]