http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/12/05/spain-has-been-different-for-slightly-longer-than-i-thought/ anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the sweating hun Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:50:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/12/05/spain-has-been-different-for-slightly-longer-than-i-thought/#comment-153072 UnHab Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:25:13 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/12/05/spain-has-been-different-for-slightly-longer-than-i-thought/#comment-153072 For Whom the Bell Tolls is ovverrated crap (by coincidence I just reviewed it). He definitely has a large responsibility for weird image of Spain we anglos have. For Whom the Bell Tolls is ovverrated crap (by coincidence I just reviewed it). He definitely has a large responsibility for weird image of Spain we anglos have.

]]> http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/12/05/spain-has-been-different-for-slightly-longer-than-i-thought/#comment-152774 kalebeul » Tapas bars, a British invention? Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:12:27 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/12/05/spain-has-been-different-for-slightly-longer-than-i-thought/#comment-152774 [...] Someone speculated drunkenly last night that, since tapas appears in English from the 1950s (C Salter in OED, “In Spain, when you order a drink in a bar.., you will always be given..something to eat.”), it may have been part of the lexical cloud conjured as the Franco government commercialised Hemingway’s message, that Spain is different. [...] [...] Someone speculated drunkenly last night that, since tapas appears in English from the 1950s (C Salter in OED, “In Spain, when you order a drink in a bar.., you will always be given..something to eat.”), it may have been part of the lexical cloud conjured as the Franco government commercialised Hemingway’s message, that Spain is different. [...]

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