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The pros of walking to Barcelona Airport.

During the building of the Agbar water company’s new giant penis office, urban legend had it that a fountain would spout from the tip. That might have prevented this.

Sensational video from Gracia district.

If you believe crap like the stat in this post we’ll have you certified.

Broadly illustrative of how we got where we are, with a joke at the end.

Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Teresa de Jesús, Carmelo, Barcelona.

One of Barcelona’s last patches of pre-war farms, small factories and cottages is under assault from planners.

And what to do when those boring old marble columns get in the way of your new staircase.

FollowTheBaldie’s services have been requested further west, so a little investigation is in order.

According to this list. As a popular destination, Barcelona has two in the top ten, Hostal Windsor and Hostal Abrevadero. A friend tells me that the proportion being fired in the sector substantially exceeds official figures for the drop in tourists. My money’s on the cockroaches to survive.

RMF over at Fum i estalzi quotes Josep Pla (“Notaries live in central locations and tend to occupy spacious apartments with very high ceilings”) and links to a business listings map of Barcelona notaries. I suppose if you hacked the streetview feature you could check out the high ceilings bit.

Here, for example.

In the last 8 years 922,200 foreigners have moved to Catalonia, taking their share from 2.9% to 15% of total population.

Twenty-nine actually, he forgot a grand. And then there’s thirty more on completion. The mayor of Ohanes’ analysis of the electoral politics of corruption is hilarious:

Of course, this isn’t real corruption like the conservative PP’s. Nice detail: the telly stays on, not to kill hidden mikes, but for reasons of social etiquette.

A special offer on meat balls with cuttlefish will have to do until the wheel of fortune creaks in their direction.

The Auken report to the European Parliament may be above to be scuppered by a conspiracy between Spain’s two principal mafias.

Socialist José Sócrates continues to deny taking bribes from the British developer, Freeport, while he was environment minister. Zazie links to bloggers who expose his official income and assets, and wonders how a chicken can get so fat on so little, and why the two major parties are keeping so quiet.

Over at Charles Svoboda’s blog for Abusos Urbanísticos No. Its anonymous British lawyer author concludes that
The hope is that the authorities will use [the hiatus caused by the bust] to introduce laws and controls that will respect European norms including the rights to private property, the protection of the environment, public contracts, etc. and to [...]

A pun on Never say never again on Gracia’s only SWP bodega (one of the proprietors claims to have known Yigael Gluckstein) may be suggesting that may be no imminent solution to the problem of bearded nutters rocketing their neighbours and then moaning about the response.
In other graffiti today, the anarchist nutters in the lovely [...]