Napoleon I – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

I read all of L’Atlàntida!

Everyone knows Verdaguer was a Spanish nationalist, right?

Who is the enemy of our happiness?

The Emperor of the French, just in case anyone had forgotten. I suppose there’s a frying pan-fire unionist argument to be made against secession, and who better to put it than a Frenchman: Well, one of the participants was a Frenchman. Here’s another load of Bellocs of which I’m also rather fond:

Constantí Ribalaigua, the Catalan who DIDN’T invent the daiquiri, for Pete’s sake

Of Tate Cabré, ethnicity, creativity, and talking dogs that shit up walls.

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.

Africa begins in the Pyrenees, according to this Sun OpenSolaris installer.

Referendums on independence are for pussies

Serious separatists will drive on the left, in Vic, starting Sunday.

Elections (brothels, Nazis), corruption, Girona airport shuttle, an Andalusian lexicon

Link love for 05/06/2009.

Drunk and disorderly

A British soldier’s hazy recollections of civil war in Portugal.

Death of a monkey mascot

Anecdotes from the frozen wastes of Spain and Britain, with a brief burst of the usual twaddle.

Beware gypsies bearing gods

The Santa Majestat in Caldes de Montbui.

Bonaparte moon

A double reflection makes up the man who was born on the thirteenth day of the moon, lost his throne on the thirteenth day of the moon, and fought the battle of Waterloo on the thirteenth day of the moon: I wonder if Josephine’s astrological babblings didn’t cause Napoleon’s natural military interest in the moon…