Spanish socialists were against the Iraq war because they don’t think it important that other people should be able to enjoy the same basic freedoms we do, soon. José García Domínguez on new domestic PSOE-speak: “Inequality is demanded by university lecturers in their struggle to avoid evaluation. Inequality is demanded by students who want grades…
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.
German less popular than Spanish in British schools because it’s too difficult/gloomy? Might it not also have something to do with the relative availability of sand and sun?