Tarragona – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ-grinder tweets for November 2017

More monkey mess from the peripatetic Homerton/Hackney barrel organ.

Rats/mice bearing the cat to his grave in Tarragona, anticipating Russian prints of the scene.

Manga monster in a Tarragona wood

Pity you can’t see it from the motorway. Or perhaps not. (H/t Abandonalia)

Call me Trebots

A rather nice example of apocopation and suffixation in Catalan Spanish.

Trebonanius Gallus: completely unrelated. (Photo of the emperor at the Met <a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trebonianus_Gallus_bronze_medium_view.jpg'>CC</a> by Pharos.)

Venus de Milo tribute in Villanueva y Geltrú

And what to do when those boring old marble columns get in the way of your new staircase.

How can Galicia be a nation if you can’t get there from Brussels?

Centre-periphery logistics and nationhood.

Four new underwater mounds off Tarragona

Depending on how the bathymetric data is rendered. Over at Ogle Earth.

The great Catalan gunpowder swindle

As the evenings draw in, the Arenys de Mar sensimilla syndicate has taken time off from the plantation to post another shambling Gran Armada-wreck of nationalist historical revisionism. (It’s dated 2006, but this is the first time it’s turned up in my reader, so…) As is customary, our scenario is back-to-the-future: a massive 15th century…

Ship bringing water from Tarragona wrecked in torrential rain off Barcelona

I don’t have time to read this story right now, but that’s what people tell me’s going on.

Youp on Nastic

It will surely be taken as a compliment if I say that Youp van ‘t Hek reminds me a bit of Tarragona’s finest: Gelukkig was ik in Spanje en niet alleen in Barcelona. Zondag zat ik ruim op tijd in de trein naar Tarragona. Op naar de topper Nastic tegen Sevilla, de koploper op dat…

Barcelona-Cadiz, part 1

Brief report on carnival, goat à l’africaine, and a night out with the Belarussian putimafia.