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• Rare photos of the marvellous new bridge over the Llobregat

  
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  Another triumph for the regional administration.
  6 days ago

• Inaguració (sic)

  
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  This missing "u" is quite common in Spanish and Catalan, and it puzzles me because, unusually, the written form doesnt echo a verbal anomaly: Ive never heard anyone pronounce the word in this fashion. However, a bit of baracking in pre-WWI emails produces this bit of Madrid vernacular by Carlos Arniches, which I ...
  1 week ago

• National milk

  
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  Why on earth do people pay 60-80% over the odds for "Catalan" brands?
  1 week ago

• Weeds

  
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  Proper plants always die on me, and they recall the ex and (in the case of bathroom ones) an abysmal experience with some long-horned cows in a Venezuelan jungle, but not much else. So the army of occupation has been ejected and replaced by wildflowers with great lumps of limey soil, which I know and [...]
  1 week ago

• “Fashion and tapas take over the European Parliament”

  
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  But "Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel García-Margallo ... called for an end to the cliché of the Spain of fiesta and siesta."
  1 week ago

• Venice = Barcelona writ large

  
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  Theres an excellent St Marks rant by Anna Somers Cocks over at the New York Review of Whatever. No one who has been involved in tourism in southern Europe will be surprised by the notion that local government is reluctant to tame the tourism monster because its members benefit on the side from the huge [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Safeguarding cranial matter without cycling helmets

  
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  Ones classically transversal solution will please left- and right-wing nutters and sexual deviants everywhere.
  2 weeks ago

• Business Over Tapas

  
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  Ive just received my first copy of Business Over Tapas, a weekly bulletin from Lenox Napier, and Id warmly recommend it to the rest of you. It combines sourced summaries of recent press in English, Spanish, German, and whatever else I have missed, with original reporting and analysis from Lenox (some tasters here), ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vucaque

  
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  One wonders whether IRQ is aware of the meaning of the name of this Madrilenian psychedelic blues-rock band.See also:Concert-meeting, Saturday, Rambla del Raval Wild thing “Ripoll, the future Pittsburg of Spain” Intermission riff (ii) Victorian paternalism
  2 weeks ago

• More splendid photos of Granada, Penedès

  
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  But still no solution to my question as to which travelling geo-entrepreneur copied the name of Santa Fe from the County of Barcelona to the Kingdom of Granada. I am not sure Santa Fe agrees with me or with having Reconquista romances recited from its church steps, but Im rather fond of Granada itself, and [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Alcalde CiU = combatiente División Azul

  
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  One from the good old days for Jordi Xuclá.See also:Saint George “too Spanish” Calls for transparent pricing in bars & restaurants turnout How many days to save the euro? St Max (Planck)’s day flowers
  4 weeks ago

• Boom and bust suicide myths

  
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  The Spanish property crash and 1929. With an anecdote of a frustrated rural hanging.
  4 weeks ago

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