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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 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).

Spidy Wasch

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

Two Brad Pitt exclusives

French farmer tells him, “Get off my land!”
Did a Pakistani Dracula turn Brad and Angelina into zombies?

The war on arsematrons

After years of shilly-shallying, will France finally stand up to American fartpower?

What have racing cyclists and American Black Vultures got in common?

Urohydrosis.