A Barcelona spamvertising blog

Or was the Second Anglo-Afghan War actually fought in the Pyrenees?

Trebots @ Friday January 15th 2010 11:00

The 92nd Highlanders & 2nd Goorkhas storming Gaudi Mullah Sahabdad at Candahar, Richard Caton Woodville (1881)

It confuses Antoni “Everything comes from the great book of Nature” Gaudí with whatever Gaudi means in Pushtu.

No, wait, isn’t that Montserrat in the background?!

(Pic: Wikimedia Commons. More nominally Muslim fortresses here.)

Tags: Afghanistan, Barcelona, Flashman, Gaudí, Gurkha, Highlander, Montserrat, Pashto, Pushtu, Pyrenees, Scot, Spain, walking, walking tours, War
Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals

RSS: post comments, blog comments, blog posts

You can leave a response. Pinging is currently closed due to spam generated by Jared Croslow's Deep Link Engine. (Temporary fix: turn off trackbacks with MySQL: UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status="closed"; )

Comment now

Yet another facking neo-Gothic historical thriller set in Barcelona

Binding referendum on the future of Catalonia, hosted by Kalebeul

Coffin Joe and the King of Persia

Terminal Germinal

Chinese government attacks on Marxists.org

Singing in Llantiol, December 18

Barcecorpus

Commies and fascists

Cheeky bugger

Pasolini and the sacred

1001엔젤 은우 아빠: 영어 단어 100000개
KoraB & Ylli: '

There are no items in this feed.

Big map

More photo-posts here.

I share other stuff over here.

If you're feeling generous, check out my Amazon wishlists for Deutschland, France , and the UK, or use PayPal to

Trebots@Josep Huguet, José Millán Astray and the death o…: Funny that, the salaries are most definitely not nuts but they still got monkeys and will get anothe

Tom@Josep Huguet, José Millán Astray and the death o…: Well I was never a member and I'm not sure that I have ever voted for them, actually. I still like t

Trebots@Josep Huguet, José Millán Astray and the death o…: You've supported his lot in the past, so why for God's sake didn't you get the job instead of a babo

Tom@Josep Huguet, José Millán Astray and the death o…: Josep Huguet? The same guy who used to be Conseller for Trade? The Business and Innovation secretary

Trevor@Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Fra…: So is that a law, and if so then when was it last enforced? If you can't give me a "yes" and a date,

My 5% bookstore - new stuff

Spanish history

EL DISCURSO BOLCHEVIQUE: EL PARTI COMMUNISTE FRANÇAIS Y LA SEGUND A REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA (1931-1936)
CEAMANOS LLORENS, ROBERTO
20.00€
LA HUELLA MORISCA: EL AL ANDALUS QUE LLEVAMOS DENTRO
RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, ANTONIO MANUEL
19.00€
CASTILLA Y EL MUNDO FEUDAL (3 TOMOS): HOMENAJE AL PROFESOR JULIO VALDEON
VAL VALDIVIESO, Mª ISABEL DELMARTINEZ SOPENA, PASCUAL
90.00€

Modern Spanish fiction

EL OFICINISTA (PREMIO BIBLIOTECA BREVE 2010)
SACCOMANO, GUILLERMO
18.00€
LA ENMILAGRADA
GOMEZ-ARCOS, AGUSTIN
18.95€
DIAS DE HIELO Y FUEGO
ORDOÑEZ, ROCIO
18.00€

Spanish classics

EL CONDE LUCANOR
DON JUAN MANUEL
8.90€
POESIAS CASTELLANAS COMPLETAS
VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA
7.90€
ROMANCERO
ANONIMO
12.00€

On this day

Barcelona

September 9 1423 Llega viniendo de Nápoles con treinta y dos galeras el rey D. Alfonso IV de Barcelona.
September 9 1783 Principian á construirse los hornos de municion, conocidos con el nombre de Pastim.
September 9 1843 (Sábado). Continúan las contestaciones entre el Capitan General y Ayuntamiento, las cuales versan en gran parte sobre el haber hostilizado el barrio de Gracia los Centralistas á pesar de no haber sido molestados desde aquel punto. Hoy ha entrado, á eso de la una y media de la ta...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

9 de setembre de 1918 Passat el dia a Girona –sense tenir-hi pràcticament res a fer. El viatge, en tren, anar i tornar, val: 3,60 ptes. Tothom ho troba car. No ho sé pas: em falta un terme de comparació. No he guanyat fins ara, en la meva vida, ni un cèntim. Els diners tenen una importància indescriptible. És claríssim. [...]