I’ve moaned about this before, and here’s a similar complaint in Terry’s Big Adventure: I noticed that there was more of a sidewalk etiquette in Barcelona than in Italy but I think this had more to do with the large numbers of polite tourists in the area I was in. I did notice, however, that…
Almost forgot today’s (final) instalment (parts 1, 2, 3) of a sentence in Seres Míticos y Personajes Fantásticos Españoles by Manuel Martín Sánchez: dramatismo. I like my drama neat.
PL just sent me what he believes is a made-up story by La Vanguardia’s plagiarist moron in London, Rafael Ramos, the essence of which is that the City thinks that our new leader, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is just wonderful. There are a number of problems with the article: Various businesses in the City include…
“Clos!” mutters a wealthy neighbour every time it rains, confident that doom is imminent for Barcelona’s dentally salient mayor. In fact the AA rating assigned by Standard and Poor’s to the latest offering of municipal debt is just another sign that Barcelona is in pretty good shape, [insert preposition here] 20 years of Catalan socialist…
They’ve nailed Jack Kelley of USA Today, so when are we going to hear some news from Josep Maria Casasús on the fate of La Vanguardia’s plagiarising illiterate, Rafael Ramos? (Here he is with some more porkies in the Independent, full text on al-Jazeerah.)
This is the kind of news that must break the hearts of the beards who want to establish little, backward Islamic fiefdoms: Tunisian textile exports to Spain have more than doubled in the last three years. Major Spanish players like Zara, El Corte Inglés, Pull and Bear and Mango are already operating in Tunisia and…
And here are the 63 words that constitute (part 1, part 2) part 3 of the serialisation of a sentence in Seres Míticos y Personajes Fantásticos Españoles by Manuel Martín Sánchez: a lo largo y ancho de toda nuestra geografía, el toro actúa como el verdadero protagonista para poner a prueba el valor de los…
Here, taken on this walk, is a shot of Mexican multinational Cemex‘s Sanson cement factory at Sant Feliu, where the Llobregat cuts through the coastal range: Sanson and the Molins factory were major suppliers of concrete as the region industrialised, and this particular works has continued to play a major role in recent years. The…
Thanks to the DG for this Mirror item: A DRIVER who tried to run down a pedestrian he thought was terror chief Osama bin Laden has been given a three-month suspended jail sentence. He jumped a red light and sped down a pedestrian street as he chased the bearded shopper. He only failed to hit…
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