This is surely where this took place, and this must have been one of the last guests pre-mortem. I liked the unconsciously gruesome comments on TripAdvisor about the chilly welcome and subsidence on the tennis court, and a couple of the photos are thoroughly spooky.
Stay in a hotel whose previous owners were beaten to death and buried in the garden
Posted: March 17th 2010 16:47.
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
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.
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.
Translating Hamlet into Siberian
Posted: January 24th 2010 11:22.
How would you describe the relationship of the Slav Francisco with his mother?
Pig / lion / monkey / child wine
Posted: January 16th 2010 22:41. Last modified: January 18th 2010 10:29
A Portuguese menagerie of sozzledness.
Time to behead Fèlix Millet?
Posted: January 14th 2010 11:20. Last modified: January 14th 2010 11:21
On this day in 1466, one Juan Sort, aged 70, was beheaded for the misappropriation of public funds. Millet is said by the auditors to have stolen around 30 million and has fessed to around 10%, but has not been anywhere near a prison, and indeed seems to think that by looking old and grey [...]
La gran estafa de la Sal del Himalaya
Posted: December 24th 2009 19:12. Last modified: December 24th 2009 19:23
Las mentiras de empresas como Evicro, y como fabricar tu propia Sal del Himalaya casi gratis y de manera sostenible.
Why they didn’t find Lorca
Posted: December 18th 2009 17:17. Last modified: December 18th 2009 17:40
Bishop Gibson of Granada understands beatific bureaucracy but not tradition. Featuring a bad Vietnamese flamenco clip.
Font de Mora, right about small screens causing myopia in children?
Posted: December 15th 2009 22:59. Last modified: December 15th 2009 23:05
Nearsightedness is increasing, and there aren’t many other reasonable explanations.
Consum vs Conssum
Posted: December 10th 2009 18:55. Last modified: December 10th 2009 19:11
Trademark theft to liven up the Spanish fruit and veg price-war?
Relative corruption of PP, PSOE, etc revisited
Posted: November 20th 2009 12:42. Last modified: November 20th 2009 15:39
Every 9th Canarian nationalist councillor has a problem, and the left looks to be in worse trouble than the right nationally.
Extremadura government to pay for wanking workshops
Posted: November 10th 2009 16:48. Last modified: November 10th 2009 16:56
We’re in for a long recession: if the Extremadura PSOE says that pleasure is in your hands (via PD), then presumably they know that Spaniards aren’t going to be able to afford prostitutes for the foreseeable future. There’s been the predictable outcry from Catalan nationalists who believe they are subsidising Extremaduran tosspots and other spendthrift [...]
Discovered: Cataloonia’s true fet diferencial
Posted: October 27th 2009 15:45. Last modified: November 18th 2009 16:14
It’s not what you steal, it’s the way that you steal it.
The bullfighting Chinaman and his magnificent midget show
Posted: October 6th 2009 08:16. Last modified: October 6th 2009 08:22
Yet more Spanish culture for Brussels to ban.
Francisco Camps vs Fèlix Millet in the media
Posted: October 5th 2009 13:13. Last modified: October 5th 2009 13:24
What do ghit ratios from La Vanguardia, El Periodico, El PaĂs, ADN, ABC, El Mundo, PĂşblico, and Levante tell us about their owners’ priorities?
The lurch and fall of the AlmerĂa 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?
Mosquitoes, alcohol and violence
Posted: August 13th 2009 14:14. Last modified: August 13th 2009 14:23
A Catalan children’s song remembered by Francesc Candel; early rave culture on Central America’s eastern seaboard.
The coming and going of the gypsies
Posted: June 12th 2009 23:27. Last modified: December 1st 2009 09:49
Yo, el vaquilla, quinqui cinema, and the usual political whining.
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, MÂŞ 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 22 1460 El prĂncipe de Viana alcanza por primera vez el perdon de su padre, y se viene de Mallorca á Barcelona.
- March 22 1848
En obsequio del beato José Oriol, cuyo fiesta se celebra mañana en la parroquia de Ntra. Sra. del Pino, se cantan en la misma iglesia solemnes maitines á las 4 y media de la tarde de hoy.
Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)
- 22 de març de 1919 Alta cultura. Les coses, Ă©s clar, haurien pogut Ă©sser diferents… En acabar el batxillerat, la meva intenciĂł no fou pas d’estudiar per advocat. M’hauria agradat mĂ©s d’estudiar quĂmica, i per tal de servir el que jo creia que era la meva vocaciĂł, vaig matricular-me al preparatori de Ciències. Matricular-se! Prenguin nota de la parauleta! El [...]
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 GĂĽell
- 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
