Karim’s got some photos of a civil protection open day, BUT NO PICS OF HUNKY TUNISIAN FIREMEN! I know a lot of men and women in Barcelona won’t forgive him for that.
Emboldened by comments from John of CityHighlights, who was out on an in-town walk yesterday, I’m going to start offering Barcelona city walking tours via the website. (John pointed out that Roman London also took shape on a modest hill between two streams–in Barcelona’s case, we’re talking the Rambla and the old Riera de Sant…
I have not the slightest problem with gay marriage (I’d go further and subsume marriage contracts etc under general contractual law so I can marry my bicycle without Mr Rajoy objecting) or adoption, but it is true that some much-loved and characteristic Spanish expressions will have to change along with society, as El Cerrajero notes.
Liberals believe that politics is about freeing individuals to live as they want within just bounds. Nationalists believe it is a tool for translating a sense of ethnic identity and a fondness for folkdancing into, respectively, sovereignty and national ballets. No one can remember what socialists believed. For the rest of us, however, politics–I speak,…