Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.
Christopher Howse: A Pilgrim in Spain
Spanish Politics- Here's The NY Times and here's The Guardian on the meaning of 'Vox', viz: 'Neanderthal'.
- The Local reports here on nationwide reaction/revulsion.
- Here's Lenox Napier on the current mess.
- As UK cafés don't provide newspapers for their clientele to read, I can't say this wouldn't happen there, but I can say it often irritates me here in Spain to have to deal with a paper that's been left in a complete mess. An example, to me, of thoughtlessness as regards others. Or individualismo, if you like. Still, at least they're free . . .
- Last time I looked at the Mundicamino site, there were 39 caminos through Spain to choose from. As of yesterday, the total is (at least) 40, with this new one - up via Portugal - now accepted as a genuinely historical route. The good news for me is that it doesn't pass through Pontevedra. Hotel and bar owners on the route will also be happy about it, whether or not they're religious:-
- The early winter weather in Pontevedra/Galicia this year is almost certainly the second worst since I came here 19 years ago. The nadir was actually my very first (dispiriting) winter here. While I was in the UK for October and the first half of November, it rained almost every day, and is still doing so. Until 2 December they say. This might or might not be a result of (A)GW but it's all in sharp contrast with the sunny final quarters of the last 2-3 years. And unwelcome. Here's a topical Gallego cartoon:-
- Here's a bit of Pontevedra city of almost 100 years ago - Plaza de Méndez Nuñez. Like all of our little squares, it was used to sell market produce. All of the doors you can see now open into tapas bars, except the one in the little nook, which has been a book shop for several decades. And there's a 3rd floor on the building facing you:-
Here's the same place last night:-
- Our friend from Oz finds out about - inter alia - the Spanish male penchant for cross-dressing. If you read the diary of a parish priest of the 16th century, you'll find that life in English (Catholic) villages was very much the same back then. Before 'Defender of the Faith' Henry VIII and his daughter, Liz 1, knocked it all on the head.
The EU
- Richard North today: France and Germany are looking to the EU to convene another "Conference on the Future of Europe", which they believe is necessary to make the EU "more united and sovereign" across a range of challenges. This, of course, is entirely expected and one of the many reasons why so many in the UK campaigned to leave the EU. There is never a status quo as, no sooner is one treaty laid down, there is another in the planning stage – and then another one after that, in a never-ending process of integration. Both abhorrent and unrealistic to some.
- Has Rudi Giuliani finally been thrown under the bus/to the wolves? Your spin on this, Perry?
- This is a beauty.
- To strive: Past participle. US: Strived. Brit: Striven.
Would make a change from a placebo . . .
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