One reason there ain’t no tarantulas

Catalan patriots like nothing better than to mine stone and build housing estates in the countryside, protected or not. Check some cool photos over at La Veritat.

Wikkid

Still no good Spanish stuff on BJAODN, but I did like the water-on-Mars entry.

Of taverns and tarantulas

Grande consuelo es tener/La taberna por vecina,/But trying to find a spider there:/It’s a facking misdemeanour (guv).