Valencia – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

A tribute to the Valencian work ethic

Featuring my draft recording of “El dilluns jo no treballe”, with various other European “7 days lazy” songs.

Plus a zarzuela/politics RFI.

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More than some people think.

Nearsightedness is increasing, and there aren’t many other reasonable explanations.

Yet more Spanish culture for Brussels to ban.

What do ghit ratios from La Vanguardia, El Periodico, El País, ADN, ABC, El Mundo, Público, and Levante tell us about their owners’ priorities?

Blasco Ibáñez says that actually we have always thought “at all hours of the Mediterranean rim.”

(Even if they can’t make a decent paella.)

Variation in air traffic numbers throws interesting light on Spain’s problems as it plunges into recession.

The Auken report to the European Parliament may be above to be scuppered by a conspiracy between Spain’s two principal mafias.