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Three justifications for jumping red lights in Spain

You’re a policeman. Sometimes they put the winky-winky on as they jump and then turn it off again, often they don’t bother. You know a policeman. You don’t intend to go very far on the other side. I find this the most puzzling, and one of its practicioners almost nailed me this morning.

World Heritage taxi

And why not? The taxi has far, far greater claims than beautiful but culturally insignificant places like Úbeda. But would drivers stump up the bribes required by UNESCO officials?

Bicing, Spain’s worst public bike scheme

Sez a German motoring organisation.

Un año en la vida de una estación de Bicing

Disponibilidad de bicicletas en Torrent de les Flors (plaça Rovira i Trias) para el año 2012-3.

The 1903 Paris-Madrid race that got away

A remarkable feat of memory from Arturo Barea’s autobiography.

Marcel Renault driving to his death in May 1903.

A bicycling boho hobo, tempted by Cockaigne, fearful of Ruin

What to do when a mysterious lady offers you a free ride?

The lion and the gazelle playing chess or similar in a Ramesside topsy-turvy world papyrus <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=117404&partid=1&searchText=topsy+turvy+world&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1'>from the British Museum</a>

The right and the wrong type of snow, according to Avicenna, Aristotle and Plutarch

With an excerpt from a plea for more state funding by the Bostonian Western Rail-road, in which we are given to understand that snow is not necessarily a bad thing.

Eastern Black Sea Tour, Tunisia

TravelShop Turkey‘s bus doesn’t actually take you to Istanbul or Tunis, but love those krazy keywords (and of course even Trabzon isn’t that Turkish any more anyway).

Barcelona Airport T1 pics

But getting there is still a pain in one’s posterior end.

Spidy Wasch

A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.