Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.
Christopher Howse: A Pilgrim in Spain
Spanish Life - Lenox Napier tells us that bullfighting is 'losing steam' in Spain, with hardly any media coverage and fights down by 50% since 2010.
- Something else on the way down in Spain is binge boozing in tourist hotspots. El País gives us details here.
- Something back on the way up is solar heating. HT to Lenox again for informing us that the Norwegians are coming to the aid of the Spanish on how to harness the sun, of which - of course - they have a helluva lot more.
- A nice place to (attempt to) write?
- And a charming video of Madrid 110 years ago.
- The Spanish police can prosecute you for upsetting them. And, believe me, they are easily offended. For example by this cartoon, which has landed the artist in court:-
Galician Life
- Examiners of the the university entrance exams (la selectividad) complain that Galician students are short on reasoning and display insufficient comprehension and analysis. Too much brain-dumping of stuff learned off-by-heart, they say. Whose fault is that, one wonders.
- This chap has or two answers to the question I posed yesterday on what to call the Senate proceedings.
- An entertaining contribution to the shooting match.
- Word of the Day:- Zafarrancho: General quarters. Defined here.
- Every day, I pass 4 times through a small industrial park at the bottom of my hill. It's going to be expanded by the arrival of major operators such as Decathlon and MacDonalds. But god knows when. The process of gaining licences has already taken 18 years and the work that took place a year or so ago to clear land at the side of the road stopped shortly after it began,
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