Elementos de geografía física

From the Diario de Barcelona, quoted in Manuel Martínez de Morentin, Estudios filológicos (1857): —¿Qué se entiende por España? —Una Nacion como otra cualquiera, pero con la particularidad de haber de todo menos españoles. —¿En qué climas se halla? —En tres; frio, caliente y templado: en invierno es cuando regularmente se siente el frio, lo…

Catalan cannibal song

Demanding a paella of the Moderates, in today’s entry over at the new libro verde. Sequel: a week later, with defeat imminent, the same people sang, “Now it’s us in the frying pan.” (The 1843 Jamancia, from jamar, to eat, is one of Barcelona’s forgotten revolutions. Only a fool or a saint would attempt to…

Narcissists

One reason to get away from downtown Barcelona, which has become a drunken take on Disney World. Spain seems quite happy to be Europe’s Florida. (Dear Gallic lesbians living in my downstairs: this is not a sexuality thing.)