With Ibex in free-fall, La Vanguardia announces European bail-out
But we were hoping that there would be rather more than 99 euromillions.
Tag: france
“2012 possible predictions”
Three Anno Domino 2010 hints for survivalists in the Pyrenees.
The true origins of “Africa begins at the Pyrenees”
This deeply resented peripheralising aphorism was coined not by Alexander Dumas but by Dominique Dufour de Pradt or conceivably the Conde do Funchal.
Competing Amazigh and Arabic etymologies of “beur”
And “beurette,” of course, this being the Year of Zahia Dehar, who sounds like she may escape from being shagged up the bum by Pierre Woodman.
Stay in a hotel whose previous owners were beaten to death and buried in the garden
Why less democracy is better for Europe
Peter Mandelson on how fortunate we are that the European Commission is unelected, remote, unaccountable, and a major bureaucracy.
Born, not made
The Spanish, making progress with a backlog of untranslated English snowclones?
Jingoistic poem celebrating the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702)
Half roasted Frenchmen, some o’er Gratings Broil’d/Do mix with Spaniards in the Sea parboil’d;
Mysterious Zaragoza nights
Between-wars texts about Zaragoza by Germans who appear never to have visited the place.
El gallito inglés / le coq anglais
Proud English cock, limp Latin hen: the binary opposition of English and Spanish fowls as a metaphor for the contrast between growing British military might and declining Spanish power.
