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Monday, April 01, 2013

Here's a new Spanish Practice . . . It's reported that troubled private hospitals and clinics there are paying tour operators, taxi drivers and even the police to bring in tourists who are then told that their European Health Card isn't valid for the services they've been given. Nice. Read more here.

Trawling the net for something else this evening, my daughter today came across a 2010 report that Penguin Australia had printed a cook book with the mother of all misprints in it - “salt and freshly ground black people.”. The company got a big white mark for that.

Tonight I saw the last hour of the 1970 epic, “Waterloo”, starring Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer, inter alia. It flopped at the box office but I was rather impressed with the filming of the battle. I assumed all the cavalry men belonged to the Polish army but they turned out to be Russians. The ImdB web page has this to say this about them:- Soldiers of the Red Army were used as extras to portray the British army. They panicked repeatedly and scattered during the filming of some of the cavalry charges. Attempts to reassure them by marking the closest approach of the horses with white tape similarly failed, and the scene was cut.

Finally . . . There's one thing I'll miss about life here in the UK when I return to Spanish roads on Thursday – drivers who make signals at roundabouts and then do exactly what they've indicated they will. On the other hand, life will be less predictable. Exciting, even.

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