Tag: spain

Whatever happened to romance?

I’ve finally figured out why the mountain bike was invented: to keep this lot in order when they head off-piste in the Pyrenees. Lost me, they did. On the other hand, some people (1, 2) seem to manage quite well with straightforward, old-fashioned models. The second goat’s tag is Quand la pauvreté frappe a la…

Bambubici

Flavio Deslandes, dissenyador industrial a la Universitat PUC-Rio: La bicicleta és una de les invencions més brillants del món. És difícil trobar un desavantatge … – a part del material del que es fa. Les bicicletes lleugeres es fan de l’alumini, que és un dels materials més intensius en recursos que existeixen. Les meves bicicletes…

Cross?

I met this bloke at around nine last Sunday morning as I was cycling along the old road from Manresa to Calaf on my way to the Aragonese Pyrenees. As you probably won’t be able to discern from this appalling photo–it was raining and I was quite surprised–he was brown and dishevelled, accompanied by a…

Rafael Ramos update

Still no reaction from La Vanguardia re my query of last Wednesday, documented here. Are ethics something of a sore point for them? When John Chappell exposed plagiarism by Màrius Serra, another of their writers, the paper’s ombudsman basically told him to go away and do penance for being a bellicose Anglo-Saxon. I was initially…

De grote catalaanse openbaar vervoerloterij

Drie manieren om te verliezen: De databronnen zijn vervuild of de integratie klopt niet: denk even na over het eerste voorbeeld op het (klikbare) plaatje. De tijden kloppen wel maar vandaag niet: zie voorbeeld 2. Niemand in el Papiol weet waarom de trein pauzeert buiten het station gedurende twee eenzame weken in september. Met de…