Madrid – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Galdós and those spud-crazy guiris

Where did he get that vernacular?

Bar Daguiri on Barcelona beach: a Guardia Civil hangout?

Small-town drunk

… explains Ronaldo’s pre-marital crisis.

El Barça, Franco’s favourite team?

There is no statistical evidence for claims that the Franco government worked for Real Madrid and against Barça.

2005 is pork barrel year for defence minister José Bono’s home region of Castilla-La Mancha. This should help mend relations between the local socialists and Madrid, which had become strained over water redistribution policy.

Christmas fun

Boxers, chickens, football

PP + Irak = Madrid

A lot of people still believe this, and a lot of people have a powerful vested interest in them continuing to do so.

Harry Potter terror

More on the strange case of the teenage mail-bomb and Harry Potter fanatic.

BritishExpat.com

Thanks to BritishExpat.com for the link to FollowTheBaldie.com. The British Ladies’ Association Charity Shop in Madrid sounds particularly interesting.

Wales/Spain

“I’d never f**king heard ‘Y Viva Espana’,” says Geraint Watkins.

Murder of Theo van Gogh by Muslim extremist

De Telegraaf draws a link between the murders of Pim Fortuyn and, this morning in Amsterdam, of Dutch polemicist and director, Theo van Gogh: their deaths are separated by 911 days, as were New York and Madrid. He was shot and stabbed to death by a man with double Moroccan and Dutch nationality, an associate…

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