New walking route
Day: November 27, 2007
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Over Santa Coloma way, taking in Puig Castellar, which I’ve been doing informally for a while. Here are some photos: This is looking back over the river towards the bits of Barcelona no one visits. Badalona FECSA Badalona FECSA and Ryanair Barcelona There are other attractions, but the best bit about it for me are…
Mal aparcado posts photos of absurd and illegal parking. There are often so many cars and scooters parked on the pavements in Barcelona that the only place left to walk is the road. Barcelona shots include a nice one of three Mosso-mobiles illegally parked nose-to-tail to go snacking in a bar. Anecdote: The other day…
I’ve spent the past half hour helping a milliner source sinamay, the principal material used in the confection of hats. It is made using small quantities of silk and the fibres of the abacá, a species of banana from the Philippines. Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga (Estadismo de las Islas Filipinas, researched 1803-5) writes that the…
Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians