1/2, from Waitrose, M&S, … To the extent that the dishes are recognisable, it should be said that many are also generally poorly prepared in Spanish bars, and the supermarket versions are often pretty horrible. But in Britain culinary ignorance combined with the opiate fantasies of illiterate marketeers is producing a rather special new genre.
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Authored by the Spanish and Portuguese state meteorology services, an 80-page PDF with a good range of temperature and precipitation data - Estat Català
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