Some historical advice from an Irish perspective for Esperanza Aguirre on the pitfalls of attempting to demonstrate by symbolic means the virile and libertarian spirit of Madrid in the invented and regrettable conflict between it and doldrummed Barcelona.
How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley revisited
Posted: March 6th 2010 11:12. Last modified: March 6th 2010 11:36
Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview
Posted: March 3rd 2010 17:20. Last modified: March 3rd 2010 17:25
Here’s a cheeky hybrid of actual and virtual tourism: the guide hasn’t been to all of the places advertised here at 100€ per person per day, and he hasn’t visited some for a decade, so instead of conducting costly research he learns them from Google Streetview. Which, for all I know, may work perfectly well [...]
The right and the wrong type of snow, according to Avicenna, Aristotle and Plutarch
Posted: February 11th 2010 00:19. Last modified: February 11th 2010 07:40
With an excerpt from a plea for more state funding by the Bostonian Western Rail-road, in which we are given to understand that snow is not necessarily a bad thing.
Eastern Black Sea Tour, Tunisia
Posted: February 8th 2010 15:08.
TravelShop Turkey’s bus doesn’t actually take you to Istanbul or Tunis, but love those krazy keywords (and of course even Trabzon isn’t that Turkish any more anyway).
Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?
Posted: January 27th 2010 16:40. Last modified: January 27th 2010 16:50
The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.
Barcelona Airport T1 pics
Posted: January 12th 2010 08:25. Last modified: January 12th 2010 08:28
But getting there is still a pain in one’s posterior end.
Why I’m called Trevor
Posted: November 12th 2009 17:10. Last modified: November 19th 2009 23:59
Or rather, how my grandfather seems to have been named after a minor railway station.
Donkijote
Posted: September 29th 2009 13:38.
Can someone work out from this steaming pool of verbal diarrhea if they’re loading the donkey down with GPS recorders etc and then letting it go wherever it wants? Now that would be really interesting. Er, not, actually. [Whatever happened to Deirdre (?) and the donkey and cart with which she made her way from [...]
Referendums on independence are for pussies
Posted: September 8th 2009 12:40. Last modified: September 8th 2009 15:20
Serious separatists will drive on the left, in Vic, starting Sunday.
The lurch and fall of the AlmerÃa coast
Posted: September 5th 2009 11:04. Last modified: September 5th 2009 11:11
Excerpts from Juan Goytisolo and Ramón Fernández Palmeral, with an epitaph from George Orwell.
Fiesta mayor programmes and Zapatero
Posted: August 29th 2009 14:46. Last modified: August 31st 2009 09:40
Party political prejudice, or yet more historical memory bollocks?
The Lord Mayor of London’s giantess
Posted: August 6th 2009 23:43.
Both white and black men prohibited from ambulant advertising.
“Discretion Environment Elegance”
Posted: May 26th 2009 19:37. Last modified: May 26th 2009 19:40
An illegal brothel at Girona Airport.
Virgin and Child
Posted: May 22nd 2009 11:02. Last modified: May 22nd 2009 11:09
At Giseno, Lago di Como.
The green of the louse/Lo verde del piojo
Posted: May 21st 2009 11:46. Last modified: May 21st 2009 11:48
An etymological hop from kite-flying with Juan Marsé back to Concha Piquer’s greatest hit.
Hand-made corporate logos
Posted: May 12th 2009 20:55.
If phone companies don’t provide window stickers, Pakistani shopkeepers may have a go themselves.
Entertaining video of prostitutes and thieves on the Rambla
Posted: May 6th 2009 08:22. Last modified: May 6th 2009 08:26
By Ramon Vila & Marta Cuatrecasas
Video: cat vs pigeon
Posted: April 27th 2009 08:42. Last modified: April 27th 2009 08:46
Will the pigeon get the cat’s food, or will the cat get the pigeon?
Keep dogs under close control
Posted: April 22nd 2009 13:56.
And whatever you do don’t let them loose in fields containing horses.
Spanish pavements
Posted: April 20th 2009 10:45. Last modified: April 20th 2009 10:56
They’re not necessarily for pedestrians.
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
- TRAGEDIA DE NUMANCIA
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
33.00€ - LIFE IS A DREAM / LA VIDA ES SUEÑO (ED. BILINGÜE INGLES-ESPAÑOL)
CALDERON DE LA BARCA, PEDRO
16.64€ - INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA (FACSIMIL) ESTUCHE 2 VOL.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
39.90€
On this day
Barcelona
- March 21 1848
En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...
Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)
- 21 de març de 1918 En aquest paÃs tenim un costum molt curiós. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
- 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que és més important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastÃssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat és superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici és monòton i pesat, però té moments d’una voluptuositat [...]
The peepul's choice
- Bloody Galicians
- Binding referendum on the future of Catalonia, hosted by Kalebeul
- How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley revisited
- Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview
- Photos and video of snowstorm in Park Güell
- Kalebeul’s 5% bookstore
- The Two Gardeners
- Why less democracy is better for Europe
- Administrative note
- Kalebeul, voice of the voiceless
- Follow la quiniela live with PHP data import to Excel
- Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard
- The naming of El Picazo
- What’s your ex-pat blogging style?
- The coming and going of the gypsies
- The green of the louse/Lo verde del piojo
- Fiesta mayor programmes and Zapatero
- Barcelona and the great European fire sale
- Lipoplasty loaf
- Interactive electronics/dance performance
- Windows Vista: Error en el servicio Servicio de perfil de usuario al iniciar sesion. No se puede cargar el perfil de usuario
- New Abramovich yacht pictures
- Some more sun goddesses
- Traductor castellano-andaluz
- Dogs’ bollocks
- Follow la quiniela live with PHP data import to Excel
- How regional language policy in Spain is pissing off foreign investors
- Sagrada Familia mural
- Jaws is not a feminist shero
- Forum auction not to include mayor Clos
