… or anyone else for that matter, says Expansión. The figure of more than 10M hectolitres annual consumption (10% of group volume) does however include the swilling of acquisitions like Cruzcampo. “Stop it, stop it!” cries Julia Sevilla, coordinator of the new course in sayings, being offered commencing this autumn by the philology phoculty of…
Uninhabited village, 25 houses with 80 hectares next to the Ordesa and Monte Perdido national park in the Aragonese Pyrenees for only €650K: I’ve only been to this one once and can’t comment further, but sales of deserted hamlets of this nature are going to become more frequent, even in Catalonia, as the Ryanair effect…
… but worse than in Winston Salem (who he?), according to the new Mercer quality of life survey. Both Madrid (38= with New York) and Barcelona (44= with Lexington) are up six, Shanghai is rocketing, and Zurich wins as usual, despite no one wanting to go there. Why pay $250 for a report which says…
Taking the view that the plain folk of Catalonia were illiterate and uncouth to a degree that would lead to ridicule in more cultured lands, Catalan language evangelists at the turn of the nineteenth century launched a barrage of self-help books. These guides taught business and social forms that will be familiar to English-speaking readers,…
Everyone says that the following picture, taken near Barcelona’s Forum site, is of a large solar panel cluster: Today I can reveal exclusively that it is in fact a huge, solar-powered Scalextric (PDF) track linking Catalunya with Valencia and the Balearics, which project managers believe will be completed before the AVE high-speed rail link to…
If, as Francesc Ferrer writes, the Carod scandal is a Madrilenian plot to discredit Catalan nationalism, why did Carod fall for it? He’s not a Spanish agent, is he?
El meu menjar favorit nadalenc és la xirivia rostida en una salsa de bolets. La xirivia és bastant barata aquí, perquè només es dóna a les vaques. En Agricultura elemental española (Madrid, 1933) José Dantín Cereceda va escriure: 410. Chirivía.- La chirivía (Pastinaca sativa L.), con sus dos variedades P. s., var.edulis, y P. S.,…
When I was small I used to hang around a container port, hoping to be picked up by a passing pirate ship, and it is with a similar contempt for danger that I now traipse across Spanish building sites. Unfortunately, signs like the one on the left are generally an indication that (legally speaking) the…
Someone just sent me a wild and wildly misleading press release (Spanish) from the PNV, the main legal Basque nationalist party. They are very annoyed about the Spanish government’s resistance to their proposal (English; BBC report) to tear up the Spanish constitution (starting with article 149.1.32, which reserves for the state the right to call…
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