29/12/2007 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Public brothel advertisements in Girona

Apparently there is a multi-ethnic casa de barrets (hat-house, from the number hanging there) at the top of the John Lennon Musical Garden–there hasn’t been any music there since people used to pop outside the city walls to have a crap: Here’s the pricelist: Argentines: 80€ Blacks: 30/60€ Catalans: 50€ Romanians: 30€ Columbians: ? Ecuadorians:…

The Spanish nightwatchman

A revealing note from Fran Harper’s Spanish phrasebook (1963, “text by Joan I de Corvera”): If you stay in a hotel or private boarding house which has no all-night porter, and return after 10.30 p.m. in winter, or 11 p.m. in summer, the outer door will be opened by the “Sereno,” who is a kind…