The baldie is fled, long live the baldie!
The business (basically a CRM database) passed into better hands in 2012. These materials remain here for cannibalisation and amusement.
The baldie meanwhile has found pastures new: as a singing organ-grinder for your event in the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands or Spain!
- Cruise & weekend favourites
- in 4 hours without feeling like a stupid tourist.
- Theme browser
- Fiesta finder
- Why FollowTheBaldie?
- Language All our guides are native English speakers and speak the local language fluently.
- Knowledge Our local and subject knowledge is profound and up-to-date.
- Interactivity See someone interesting? We'll interpret. Tired/full of energy? We can adapt the programme.
- Individuality We don't do herd tourism. No silly flags. No headsets.
- Responsibility Unlike most "green" tour businesses, we only use public transport--cheaper and generally more interesting.
Blog archives for 2011
Bad Santa vigilante hits crime-ridden Barcelona
In c/ Parlament. Ms Santamaria (geddit) gasped in alarm, but Santa didn't blink. CC for commercial use by MJS. More.
But is that acorn-fed Iberian black pig or shoe leather you’re chomping?
Illicit upgrading of jamón serrano to jamón ibérico de bellota, fraud prevention, and a statistical account of why a pig undergoing free-range fattening needs at least a hectare of oak forest.
How María Isabel Cuellar fixed her defective tortillas
A quick review of votives.
Look for a good guide, not an official one
In which I discuss anonymous threats from the official guide mafia, and take a brief look at some of 18th and 19th century Spain's stranger tourist gurus.
In the footsteps of Spartacus
Instructions on how to walk along the Appian Way to Rome from Ciampino Airport.
Conan the Barbarian (1982) Making-of Tour
I'm off through Soria, Valladolid and Zamora later this month with some folks, and pointed out to some other folks who wanted to see where Arnold trod 30 years ago that, although Shadizar has yet to be located, Doom's Hyborian Zamora may actually be the real Zamora on the Portuguese border, rather than a stony […]
The physical invention of historical Barcelona
And how to sell it to tourists.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte: build shit, attract shit
APR is one of Spain's best-known novelists, and a blustering columnist to boot. Here, translated by Lenox Napier, is a tourism rant of his which is getting a lot of attention at the moment: We forget that for decades we have been clamoring for this exact kind of tourism and how we were prepared to […]
Walking unsteadily from Granada Airport to Granada through the Vega
A couple of literary extracts to get you going.
Travelling to Bournemouth Airport from Southampton? Go via Christchurch and walk if you can
Chart compares prices for shuttle vs taxi vs taxi to airport gate vs walking for a journey from Eastleigh to Bournemouth Airport.