Includes video of snow felling a pine tree and a photo of a municipal bus which almost skated its way down-town.
Photos and video of snowstorm in Park GĂĽell
Posted: March 8th 2010 20:00. Last modified: March 8th 2010 20:08
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?
Going to the dogs
Posted: August 31st 2009 11:35. Last modified: August 31st 2009 11:41
Vague musings on the past and present of hare coursing and greyhound racing in Spain.
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?
The naming of El Picazo
Posted: August 10th 2009 00:56. Last modified: August 11th 2009 10:25
Mr Muñoz Soliva postulates the participation of some peculiarly phurtive Phoenicians.
More than a bar
Posted: June 30th 2009 18:32. Last modified: June 30th 2009 18:50
Advertising on the cheap, and the joys of squatting.
Elections (brothels, Nazis), corruption, Girona airport shuttle, an Andalusian lexicon
Posted: June 5th 2009 13:21. Last modified: June 6th 2009 21:43
Link love for 05/06/2009.
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 16 1758
Fernando III of Barcelona, VI of Castile, establishes a board of commerce to encourage the same, and a commercial tribunal to resolve disputes. He reëstablishes the right of imperiage [I think this must be some kind of feudal arrangement governing property and revenue sharing ...
Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)
- 16 de març de 1918 El senyor Balaguer, escrivent del Jutjat municipal, sol prendre cafè amb el meu pare. És un senyor molt simpà tic. Sempre que em troba, em diu: –Vine al Jutjat! Faràs prà ctica de la carrera, llegiràs papers, veuràs coses que t’interessaran… –Deuen obrir molt aviat… –que jo [...]
The peepul's choice
- Born, not made
- The Lutheran conspiracy against Spain
- Shipping news
- Binding referendum on the future of Catalonia, hosted by Kalebeul
- Bloody Galicians
- How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley revisited
- Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview
- Kalebeul’s 5% bookstore
- Photos and video of snowstorm in Park GĂĽell
- The Two Gardeners
- 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
