No, not Catalonia Today the magazine, nor Catalonia Today the Generalitat PR splurge, but the English-language daily to be launched on June 15th. Today a dummy run was enclosed in El Punt, and – barring some linguistic and factual howlers (Carod, the front page informs us, is “deputy president” of Catalonia) – it looks OK.…
On Saturday evening a 61-year old publican shot two Portuguese gypsies dead from the balcony of his flat in Terrassa for parking their Ford Transit opposite and sitting around drinking and playing the electric organ. A policeman here once threatened to arrest me for doing roughly the same, but this is Douglas Adams in So…
Interesting report in this morning’s Vanguardia: The man who in mid-November calls the police station of the Mossos d’Esquadra in Vic says that his 11-year old son has witnessed a kidnapping in Taradell (Osona). The report alarms the autonomous police force, which puts its incident plan into action; the description provided by the infant is…
George Borrow (1803-81), The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies in Spain (1841): El vestit del Gitano varia amb el país que habita. Tant a Rosselló com a Catalunya consisteix la seva roba generalment d’una jaqueta, una armilla, pantalons, i un faixa vermella, que cobreix una part de l’armilla; en els peus porta sandàlies de…
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