Four-times champion Manuel Rivas has been disqualified from the Spanish championships for refusing to submit to random testing. Is my poor record in my favourite neon night bar due to my drinking beer while my opponents snort Columbian yam extract? Or is it that damn talent thing again?
Someone commented that penícula is probably not a gypsy neologism for a film dealing with the sorrows of life but a childish l/n swap, the fruit of orthographical panic caused by a relatively unfamiliar word. Although we’re clearly dealing with a different level of literary accomplishment, I suggest that Finalcial Times falls into the same…
Here. Just about to become completely useless, as work started on tearing up the medieval town from Urquianona more or less via Bilbao and the Plaza del Ángel to the Plaza Antonio López. The Barceloneta bullring is still there (closed 1924), the port has real boats, the basilica of the Merced and the cathedral face…
And, judging by the envious comments on Facebook, possibly the first in Southeast Asia: One of the mysteries of globalisation is that I spend quite a lot of time at the moment writing for Chinese exporters. The first foreign I learnt as a kid was fragments of Cantonese. Maybe I’ll get a chance to check…
Para el heladero de una plaza graciense. Lo acaban de echar y no tiene alternativa ni papeles para buscar en el circuito normal. Lleva año y medio aquí y habla bien español (y nepalí). El y un par de familiares que he conocido son muy amables, y me parece buena persona. Preguntas/ideas aquí.
A friend looking for a childbirth course in one of Spain’s lonelier regions said that ghitting parto and the name of the county capital only ghot veterinary sites. I tried to replicate, and discovered that the municipal authorities can’t spell the name of their principal natural attraction, the Cantabrian brown bear, or oso parto pardo…
A variety of views on the dreadful fate of the Larbi-Cherif sisters: Bad things happen to slags. It is an anti-Muslim plot. The Zionists are behind it. The British are racists. Ironic really, given that Al Arabiya is a tool of American imperialism.
“Spanish climatological records reveal that in the Cold Triangle [ie Teruel, Molina de Aragón and Calamocha] there have been numerous episodes … with temperatures below -25ºC at less than 200km from the mild Mediterranean as the crow flies. [This is one demonstration of the fact] that Spain has climates, not a climate.” (Aupí, Guía del…