A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.

Drinking, driving, cursing.

With a description of how thieves work Barcelona’s metro station platforms.

They’re not necessarily for pedestrians.

• French farmer tells him, “Get off my land!”
• Did a Pakistani Dracula turn Brad and Angelina into zombies?

After years of shilly-shallying, will France finally stand up to American fartpower?

The pros of walking to Barcelona Airport.

Urohydrosis.

OCB’s Black Thinking brand launches a startling new ambient campaign.

Variation in air traffic numbers throws interesting light on Spain’s problems as it plunges into recession.

The death agonies of the car industry in Barcelona’s Zona Franca district.

Du Guesclin expresses his doubts re this and other project objectives.

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

If you haven’t got a head, you’re going to need some legs.

Centre-periphery logistics and nationhood.

Renfe’s public information system at plaza Cataluña station can’t cope with the cedilla in Maçanet.

Public morality on the train to Vilafranca.

Linguistic evidence for Japanese domination, with several field reports of a more general nature.

Xavier Caballé quotes a bit where the notoriously unreliable Catalan historian Josep Benet overstates post-war executions in what he calls “the Valencian Country” by factor 10. (I could have sworn that my comment appeared before footnote 2 did, but it’s been a confusing day.) The actual figure, taken over the period in question (1939-1953), is, [...]

Estacions fantasmes del metro de Barcelona (via Dani@Altres Barcelones) has got some great contemporary photos, digital reconstructions and historical material.
The one thing I find curious is that, as with lots of Spanish websites, sourcing is vague and intellectual property appear not to be an issue. While one part of the Spanish blogosphere suffers periodic attacks [...]