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Terminal Germinal

Posted: April 13th 2009 11:49.

The pros of walking to Barcelona Airport.

Tags: airports, Barcelona, Barcelona Airport, cars, ducks, El Prat del Llobregat, gypsies, hunting, Llobregat, Montserrat, planes, walking
Categories: Birds, Buildings, Cities, Cultivation of the fields, Fields, landmarks, land measures, Les bourgeois, Mountains, Rivers, Vegetables, Vehicles

“What is art in Latin countries is obscenity in the Nordic north”

Posted: November 23rd 2008 20:02. Last modified: November 23rd 2008 20:27

JD had a bit more Time than I did and kindly sent me an article from 1930 which turns the tables on the filthy Swedes discussed this morning. It seems that towards the end of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship the Spanish postal service issued a stamp of Goya’s unshaven maja desnuda. Time writes:
The stamps (29,800) [...]

Tags: Goya, nudity, porn, stamps
Categories: Liberals & locals, Man and his parts, Theatre, Vegetables

I am burning with desire to teach the Spaniards how Nordic women can love

Posted: November 23rd 2008 11:05. Last modified: November 23rd 2008 12:48

“This incendiary message was broadcast from Berlin to hot-blooded Spain by dazzling, blonde Brita Brager. It had a coldblooded purpose: to persuade Spaniards that signing up for work in German munitions plants would be a short cut to a life of opulent lechery.” According to this Time story from 1943, Ms Brager was the 23-year-old [...]

Tags: Berth Milton, private magazine, Swedish totty
Categories: Les bourgeois, The family, Theatre, Vegetables

On this day

Barcelona

July 5 1522 Solemnes rogativas para el feliz viage del rey D. Cárlos I que venia de Alemania, á donde fue para tomar posesion del imperio.
July 5 1844
I am delighted with Barcelona. It is a beautiful city, especially the new part, with a mixture of Spanish, French, and Italian character. The climate is soft and voluptuous, the heats being tempered by the sea breezes. Instead of the naked desert which surrounds Madrid, we have here, between the ...
July 5 1848
En la iglesia de la Trinidad, hoy parroquia de San Jaime, se celebra una solemne funcion en honor del
beato Miguel de los Santos que habia pertenecido á la órden trinitaria, y cuya imágen se venera en un altar de dicha iglesia. La concurrencia no es reducida, y de las tres partes las dos...
July 5 1899
SPANISH MOBS STILL ACTIVE.; Further Disturbances at Alicante, Valencia, and Barcelona.
July 5 1909
MORE BOMBS IN BARCELONA.; One Explodes in Cafe, Another Found at Circus Wrecks a Van.

Palafrugell and thereabouts

Sorry, nothing doing today.