Although Catalonia has donkeys rather as the Soviet Union used to have coalminers, the nation’s poets have tended to avoid the devil’s walking parody on all four-footed things – that’s if we exclude Mr Cervantes and his great chivalric hero, Donkey Hotee. (Am I the only person who didn’t know that Donkey Kong is so-called…
Today’s photoboot stars a small green grasshopper which was having its insides sucked out by a spiky black Bosch-beast when we walked past. If only, for the sake of camouflage, it had been able to change places with Ivor Cutler‘s: A great grey grasshopper jumped on my knee, dusty with age. I was wearing my…
I’m not saying that the relatively inaccessible GR10 and GR11 are spotless, but one of the big problems in the Spanish Pyrenees is the ease with which people can drive up mountains, make a horrendous mess, and then drive back down again. The other day in Ripollès (most walks as yet undocumented) at around 2000m,…
There’s probably an applicable (quasi-)Biblical reference of which I am unaware, but this stomped-on, clickable Jesus in a rural Maresme cemetery, rose petals lodged in his broken heart, reminded me of Barbry Allen: Sweet William died on a Saturday night And Barbara died on Sunday Her mother died for the love of both And was…
Yesterday on this walk we met five very healthy-looking wild cats near a hidden spring on a hill just outside Barcelona, feasting on lamb offal. Do not fear, though: it turns out the local butcher climbs the hill most lunchtimes to feed them.
Dezelfde lui die zaten te zeiken over mijn muzikale smaak zijn weer bezig. Nu zou het onverantwoord zijn om ‘s nachts door tarantulagebied te wandelen met 15 Zweedse studentes. Wat een onzin. In zijn 1976 proefschrift, Dodendans: arachnia, Eurodisco en bierdrinken, werd door F Vollenbroek overtuigend getoond dat 93,4% van volwassen tarantula’s behoorlijk tot zeer…
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…
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