Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.
Christopher Howse: A Pilgrim in Spain
Spanish Politics - This is a cartoon portrayal of the Vox leader, Santiago Abascal. It rather endorses my point yesterday about his beard:-
Spanish Life
- In her book A Furnace Full of God, Rebekah Scott touches on one aspect of life here that some of us find rather odd, distasteful even: Spanish people love to discuss accidents of every kind, to analyse the anger of impact, the conditions of the roads and the vehicles, the people in the vehicles, and how it all ended up.
- Needless to say, perhaps, rubber-necking is a real problem whenever there's an accident on a major highway.
- As I regularly say, it's sometimes hard to credit the scale of commercio-poltical corruption here in Spain. A case in point is our bankrupt seafood company, Pescanova. If I understand it correctly, the company's board arranged for false invoices to the tune of €2.5 billion. And denied it in court, until the middlemen blew the whistle this week.
- The Camino Inglés - The English Way - is one of the original small number of pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela. Ignoring however far you first walked in England and the long boat trip, it was/is one one of the shortest, wending from Ferrol a mere 122km to Santiago. An English chap called William Wey - naturally Guillermo to the Spanish - made his first pilgrimage on this route in 1456 and wrote a 'remarkably detailed and interesting account' of it in his book Itineraries.
- One warm day and suddenly a magnolia tree is in bloom, a little earlier than usual, it's said:-
Did you know that this unusual tree produces its flowers before its leaves?
Spanish
- Word of the Day:- Estorbo: Hindrance, nuisance; liability
- Phrase of the Day: Al hilo de: In the context of; With regard to
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