With a sublime little parody of romantic nationalism from Camilo José Cela, who has his own particular view of this bothersome culture vs civilisation thing.
Josep Huguet, José Millán Astray and the death of intelligence
Posted: September 5th 2010 13:02. Last modified: September 5th 2010 15:09
What’s the best way to wash down raw rodent?
Posted: August 5th 2010 21:16. Last modified: August 5th 2010 21:21
Rat, squirrel or capybara, kittens have one favourite sauce.
More regular posting over at FollowTheBaldie.com
Posted: August 1st 2010 18:23.
The powers that be have suggested I start sharing walking tour information for Barcelona and other places which is of no commercial use to me and may be of practical assistance to others, so here for starters are some hints on where (not) to eat and sleep on parts of the GR-99, GR-85 and GR-73, [...]
The Snow Virgin ain’t afraid of the rain
Posted: March 26th 2010 09:53. Last modified: March 30th 2010 18:57
Not that it ever rains in Villanueva de la Jara, Cuenca.
Stay in a hotel whose previous owners were beaten to death and buried in the garden
Posted: March 17th 2010 16:47.
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.
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.
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 [...]
A Barcelona spamvertising blog
Posted: January 15th 2010 11:00. Last modified: February 3rd 2010 18:07
Or was the Second Anglo-Afghan War actually fought in the Pyrenees?
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.
Mysterious Spanish game
Posted: January 11th 2010 11:22. Last modified: February 5th 2010 19:51
What is the man doing? Why is step 4 missing?
More Nordic body culture in Barcelona
Posted: January 11th 2010 08:54. Last modified: January 11th 2010 08:55
There’s nothing your neighbourhood phenotype dream team can’t fix.
Cost-cutting in the ancient world
Posted: November 20th 2009 15:15. Last modified: November 20th 2009 15:24
Hera can no longer afford the dragon and has installed security cameras to stop the Hesperides stealing her golden apples. (Pomegranates, actually, which I believe some people also view as possible candidates. On this walk.)
What’s so hard about answering an email?
Posted: November 16th 2009 12:53. Last modified: November 16th 2009 13:15
–Hello.
–Hello, is that the Department of Tourism? Yes? Hello, a week ago I sent you an email asking if this Friday you could let me and a group in to see the crypt of blah blah blah, and I was wondering whether this would still be possible.
–Oh yes, I read the email.
–So?
–Yes, that should be [...]
Carmen de España
Posted: November 11th 2009 14:45. Last modified: November 11th 2009 20:33
A not particularly serious assault on Prosper Mérimée.
Why most American (and a considerable proportion of Spanish) wine is crap
Posted: October 26th 2009 00:27. Last modified: October 28th 2009 10:20
Don’t believe the wine pundits.
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.
Is the anglocabrĂłn longing for sun, sangria and sex a new phenomenon?
Posted: October 2nd 2009 19:26. Last modified: October 6th 2009 08:23
Blasco Ibáñez says that actually we have always thought “at all hours of the Mediterranean rim.”
Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard
Posted: September 8th 2009 21:54. Last modified: September 9th 2009 10:15
Or perhaps it isn’t.
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.
Wok jock croc shock?
Posted: September 1st 2009 08:41.
Will my favourite herpetoid be safe from the war on the narco wild life?
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
- EL CONDE LUCANOR
DON JUAN MANUEL
8.90€ - POESIAS CASTELLANAS COMPLETAS
VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA
7.90€ - ROMANCERO
ANONIMO
12.00€
On this day
Barcelona
- September 6 1491 Regios funerales en honor de D. Alfonso prĂncipe heredero de Portugal, esposo de doña Isabel hija de los reyes catĂłlicos.
- September 6 1529 Llega la noticia de la paz ajustada entre Cárlos I de España, el emperador y Francisco I de Francia.
- September 6 1843 (MiĂ©rcoles). Hoy ha amainado un poco el fuego de cañon y de fusilerĂa: los centralistas han hecho algunos disparos desde la puerta del Angel, dirigidos al vapor de PuigmartĂ situado en el barrio de Gracia. Los jamancios han pasado todo el dia ocupados en buscar y sacar de los al...
- September 6 1908 Solidaridad Obrera, Primer congreso regional de Cataluña (Barcelona 6-8 de septiembre) en el centro obrero con un número de delegados que oscila, según historiadores, entre 130 y 150, en representación de un centenar de sociedades y 25.000 afiliados y que englobaba a socialistas, anarquistas ...
Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)
- 6 de setembre de 1918 Jo. Al cafè dic reiteradament: la meva vanitat Ă©s mĂnima. Els amics tenen potser tendència a creure-s’ho. Quan arribo a casa em poso davant del mirall. He tornat de Calella molt tocat del sol, amb un color magnĂfic. Tinc una dentadura blanca. Em trobo absolutament plausible. . La meva germana Maria passa amb la meva mare pel [...] Nothing doing.
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