Day archive for June 9th, 2008

Fuck Bicing

Posted: June 9th 2008 16:44.

Being Barcelona Council’s corporativist scheme to marginalise private bike ownership and bike shops:

59euros is going round chaining random stuff to lampposts in protest at the council’s policy minimising facilities for non-council bikes and then removing perfectly roadworthy examples from the streets to make way for yet more council bikes and illegally parked motorbikes. Saltada Popular [...]

How regional language policy in Spain is pissing off foreign investors

Posted: June 9th 2008 14:58. Last modified: June 9th 2008 14:59

Here’s most of the second half of an article dealing with the Air Berlin affair in the SĂĽddeutsche Zeitung, a MOR German daily:
Hunold said … that he was proud that on internal Spanish flights they managed to have at least one Spanish-speaking stewardess on board. Introducing another language would be impossible. “Am I meant to [...]

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Barcelona

  • March 16 1758 

    Fernando III of Barcelona, VI of Castile, establishes a board of commerce to encourage the same, and a commercial tribunal to resolve disputes. He reëstablishes the right of imperiage [I think this must be some kind of feudal arrangement governing property and revenue sharing ...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 16 de març de 1918 El senyor Balaguer, escrivent del Jutjat municipal, sol prendre cafè amb el meu pare. És un senyor molt simpĂ tic. Sempre que em troba, em diu: –Vine al Jutjat! FarĂ s prĂ ctica de la carrera, llegirĂ s papers, veurĂ s coses que t’interessaran… –Deuen obrir molt aviat… –que jo [...]

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