30/08/2004 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Nudity and the Catalan autonomous millennium

I and the cat are in no doubt that all this public nakedness is linked to the campaign for a new statute of autonomy, and that Clos or Carod or Maragall or someone is going to emerge as a contemporary Jantje van Leyden. “Who?” rises the cry from the Catalan street. Jantje van Leyden–Jan Bockelson,…

Street nudism fine, says Barcelona council

That’s what this morning’s El Periódico says. The council is promoting it along with two naturist bodies, ADDAN and ALETEIA, and there’s a pamphlet featuring a naked woman up on Montjuïc. Unfortunately for local coppers there’s not likely to be much need for them to defend the civil rights of naked girlies (not even the…