In its relentless search for new reasons to have
fun, Pontevedra has hit on St Patrick's Day, possibly because of the
(over-touted) Celtic connection. There was a large marquee(tent) in
Plaza de España today and the liquid fare was 3 Irish beers and
Heineken. For food, there was St Patrick's beefburgers (your guess is
as good as mine), St Patrick's biscuits and tripe. There are plans to
show the Real Madrid-Barcelona match in the marquee tonight,
much to the annoyance of the town's hotel and bar owners. BTW - The Spanish
word for 'unfair' (as in competition) is desleal. Or
'disloyal'. Very personal.
Here's an every day story of mayoral tendencies.
Except it isn't; this guy had to resign.
Which reminds me . . . The President of the
Provincial government had been accused of some skulduggery or other.
As he's risen from being a hospital porter to millionaire politician,
some would say not before time.
I suffered a double fright yesterday when I turned
the page of a newspaper and came upon Mick Jagger's craggy face on
the left and the even uglier face of the Duquesa de Alba on the
right. Spain's richest woman, the Duchess is 88 but, thanks to
plastic surgery, looks 125. Despite the expenditure, the only thing
young about her is her (third) husband, who's in line for a large
compensation for his stewardship of her final years. A true romantic.
Spain's soundtrack dubbers are on strike. So it's
probably a good time to watch a bit of Spanish TV. And maybe catch an
original version movie. Which reminds me . . . Is there not a
material difference between "12 Years a Slave" and "12
Years of Slavery"? I ask because the latter is what the film
title became in Spanish. As if an accurate translation were
impossible.
Finally . . . RT TV has been scoffing for 2
or 3 days at the illogicality and uselessness of the US and EU
sanctions, stressing that most of those sanctioned had nothing to do
with the annexation of Crimea. As if this were the point. The channel has to be either astonishingly stupid or deliberately mendacious to take
this line. The sanctions are aimed at Putin's oligarch cronies, who
might influence him to backtrack. But I suppose RT could hardly say
this.
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