Degustando Barcelona

… are syndicating my History of Barcelona feed, so it must work in some sense. It may work even better now I’ve blocked Ukraine, Russia and Moldova, which were contributing 5% of traffic (Ukraine = 4%) in the form of spam and other shite. Most comment spam comes from the US, but then so does…

Collserola bike accident anecdotes

Here, by Alexis Rosell. I’ve never fallen off up there, although the back-pedal brakes on my subsequently stolen one-speed bike once caught fire coming down.
Cruikshank print of the Regent and Lady Hertford falling off a velocipede (1819, <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1503538&partid=1&searchText=velocipede+accident&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1'>British Museum).