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!
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- 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 posts tagged ‘Barcelona’
Video in Spanish by foreign language students warning against street crime in Barcelona
I thought the reënactments in the second half were rather good. One of the commenters, however, mistook the medium for the message and was seized by an attack of lust. (Via Robbed in Barcelona. Here's one I managed to photograph, in Vilafranca del Penedès.)
Introducing the Gaudí Experience theme park
"The genius, the mysterious, the controversial, the visionary, the innovative, the excesive... The Icon."
Announcing a 9-day tour of northern Spain’s industrial heritage in September 2012
Being a lengthy and wearisome personal declaration followed by two crucial links and an opera.
A ruined textile workshop on the banks of the Llobregat
A macabre pleasure of the Llobregat valley over the past few years has being able to walk into the factories and workshops of this once great manufacturing zone as they close. The non-fixed assets are worthless, industrial space is not exactly at a premium, so why bother with human or canine vigilantes? Officially on a […]
Pisa bar fined €1000 for charging Spanish tourist €26 for 3 * (coffee + brioche)
Here. Apparently the barman thought the guy was from Barcelona and wanted to make him feel at home. Why on earth was crucifixion along the Appian Way abolished?
Free self-guided walk from Barcelona airport to Barcelona
Via the Llobregat delta, the Mercabarna wholesale food market, the Nissan car factory, a lively Sunday clothes market, decaying light industry and remains of slums, and the cemetery and castle of Montjuïc.
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.