Two famous English students

IRQ posts a brilliant photo of Espe and abstentionist dog above a piece by “Hughes” which kicks off with Ana María Jiménez. The former presumably owns several palaces and speaks decent English. The latter has been living in a glorified cardboard box at Sofá de la Frontera for a couple of years to protest the housing situation and, if she has indeed been taking lessons from a Gibraltar gentleman (do say hello!) since “Tracyfeliz” filmed the following, is also probably pretty competent by now:

Via Blithe Gambol

Let’s see: what could the translation angle be here? Some kind of trading places thing? Ach, who cares.

Come on Ada Colado, and kick out everyone like me (except me).

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Last updated 03/05/2018

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