The Cataloonies are busy writing letters to the Three Kings, demanding that they bring toys labelled in the northern dialect of Valencian. I do hope the letters are in Persian, or they may wind up getting nothing at all.
Student nurse from a hamlet in Aragon: I live in Barcelona near the Sagrada Familia with five other girls from my region. It’s so busy and noisy here I feel I’ve got a crowd shouting in my head, night and day.
The Royal Spanish Academy looks increasingly amateurish compared to stuff like the Brigham Young integrated corpus, but at least they made a sincere effort to provide functionality. The new Royal Academy of History site, on the other hand, is a classical Spanish institutional enterprise: glorification of the bureaucrats and their buildings, but no frigging usable…
Thanks to BritishExpat.com for the link to FollowTheBaldie.com. The British Ladies’ Association Charity Shop in Madrid sounds particularly interesting.