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Photos and video of snowstorm in Park GĂĽell

Posted: March 8th 2010 20:00. Last modified: March 8th 2010 20:08

Includes video of snow felling a pine tree and a photo of a municipal bus which almost skated its way down-town.

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Categories: Heathen gods, Les bourgeois, The winds, Thunder, Trees

The smog is back

Posted: March 18th 2009 09:27. Last modified: March 18th 2009 09:28

But here are a couple of photos from the day after the great storm

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Mountains, The winds

De Juana Chaos gets something right

Posted: November 25th 2008 21:21.

I thought ETA’s man on the run had lost it when he went AWOL from a Subject Nation of an Evil Empire with generally excellent weather to a Subject Nation of an Evil Empire where it never bloody stops raining, just in time for winter. But then it started snowing across northern Spain, and even [...]

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Monsters, Splog, The law court, The winds

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  • 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 paĂ­s tenim un costum molt curiĂłs. 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 Ă©s mĂ©s important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastĂ­ssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat Ă©s superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici Ă©s monòton i pesat, però tĂ© moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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