Billionaire superyachts to save Barcelona’s traditional barrios!
But the Guardian has got its knickers in a twist.
Category: The sea
Canute, defeated by the waves, will nevertheless fix your plumbing
New business card from Barcelona’s best odd-job man.
Les pervertis de Santander
Archaic French erotic pulp, plugging Cantabria’s gaping literary hole?
Classifying mussels / muscles
Barcelona trading practices, builder’s crack-fish and the great Pacific birdshit war.
An early candidate for a Darwin Award
David Bar-David, the lemming messiah.
Shipping news
Public auctions of wrecks in Barcelona, Pontevedra and Algeciras, with thoughts on how to reduce blogging competition.
A West Cornish Barbary pirate and ghost-ship
“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.”
Is the anglocabrón longing for sun, sangria and sex a new phenomenon?
Blasco Ibáñez says that actually we have always thought “at all hours of the Mediterranean rim.”
Mosquitoes, alcohol and violence
A Catalan children’s song remembered by Francesc Candel; early rave culture on Central America’s eastern seaboard.
“Palermo’s history is marked by the multitude of conquerors and subsequent cultures that settled there”
Cruise companies don’t appear to regard original copy as an important differentiating factor.