Albacete – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

March tweets

More Czechs, Spike Jones, Brexit, burning Guy, Child Ballads, copyright, Robin Hood’s two pricks, and so on.

Tatraplan by Blahoslaw Rozboril & Josef Daňka at the Pražák Palace bit of the Moravian Gallery in Brno.

Brilliant online Spanish eco-wholefoods supplier

Rincón del Segura delivers an incredibly tasty range of basics nationwide.

A curious vertical axis wind turbine in 16th century La Mancha

But how did it work?

Alien meets Eroski girl, best 21st century Spanish short film?

Unlike most subsidised official festival crap, it’s fast, funny and real. Well, kind of.

Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard

Or perhaps it isn’t.

August storm in la Manchuela district, on the Albacete/Cuenca border

A beautiful sequence of photos, videos and radar images from nbsjose.

Private message to the leading foreign star of Peña Ciclista Albacete “Los Llanos”

“Carry on my wayward son,” snapped on the beach in San Adrián del Besós. Check the club blog. I don’t know who authored the lyrics.

A fine example of Spanish enthusiasm for the heavy metal umlaut, downstairs in the bus station in Hellín, Albacete. The -ado -> dipthongised -ao shift is common in Spanish dialects, and what you’ve got here in the last example is actually kind of diaeresis-ish. On my next visit I will communicate this information to the…

Gypsy kids riding a minibike in Nerpio, Albacete

Nerpio is a truly astonishing place, something of a contemporary Las Hurdes, particularly on a Saturday night. (Seen on this walk.)

In praise of shit shovellers

Dung beetle, Sierra de Segura, Albacete, Spain.

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