Day archive for September 23rd, 2008

Kuluska in Shanghai, first Basque tavern in China

Posted: September 23rd 2008 12:44.

And, judging by the envious comments on Facebook, possibly the first in Southeast Asia:

One of the mysteries of globalisation is that I spend quite a lot of time at the moment writing for Chinese exporters. The first foreign I learnt as a kid was fragments of Cantonese. Maybe I’ll get a chance to check out [...]

Esta quer siñela de undibel: a selection of Spanish Romani religious video

Posted: September 23rd 2008 08:29. Last modified: September 24th 2008 21:51

This house is God’s, esta casa es de Dios:

Similar phrases using the Caló vocabularly of Iberian Romani dialect are to be found on and in many other houses in the gypsy quarter of Gracia, Barcelona (on a variant of this walk).
The most common off- and online chat stopgap is Undibel siñela jucar, which George [...]

My 5% bookstore - new stuff



Spanish history

Modern Spanish fiction

Spanish classics

On this day

Barcelona

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

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