Going to the dogs
Vague musings on the past and present of hare coursing and greyhound racing in Spain.
Month: August 2009
Fiesta mayor programmes and Zapatero
Party political prejudice, or yet more historical memory bollocks?
The universality of bu/bo/boo
The strange shrieks of theatrical monsters often don’t require translation.
More evidence of increasing popularity of Spanish in Europe
And a quick trawl of Spanish collections of phonetic equivalents, the closest many of the natives get to learning a foreign language.
The fretting nun’s secret
Kalebeul explained.
Mosquitoes, alcohol and violence
A Catalan children’s song remembered by Francesc Candel; early rave culture on Central America’s eastern seaboard.
The naming of El Picazo
Mr Muñoz Soliva postulates the participation of some peculiarly phurtive Phoenicians.
Euro doh
Santa Coloma de Gramenet council website
The Lord Mayor of London’s giantess
Both white and black men prohibited from ambulant advertising.