Farewell, (Catalan) Talgo
One of 20th century Spain’s great engineering achievements disappears as it drove: with nary a whisper.

Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians
One of 20th century Spain’s great engineering achievements disappears as it drove: with nary a whisper.
The Turks and Jews of Istanbul demonstrate that co-existence is not impossible.
Public auctions of wrecks in Barcelona, Pontevedra and Algeciras, with thoughts on how to reduce blogging competition.
Why and how the 17th century Portuguese tropical medicine specialist, Aleixo de Abreu, tried to prevent proles from reading his cure for scurvy.
But getting there is still a pain in one’s posterior end.
“Discontented devil of a blackamoor, why canst thou not be satisfied to live here?” “Avast there; all our gold and diamonds can’t procure us here the bright sunshine and joyous people, nor the rich fruits and wine, of my native clime.”
A Catalan children’s song remembered by Francesc Candel; early rave culture on Central America’s eastern seaboard.
Kalebeul’s investigation into Vosk and the Na’kuhl temporal conduit yields some surprising results.