Notes in Spanish is offering a $100 prize for the best Spanish Video Blog.
Matthew at The Big Chorizo joins the ‘are the Spanish rude?’ debate.
Janelle at Tapas Talk serves up some delicious-looking Champiñones al Ajillo with a dose of local slang.
We have a great pickpockets in Madrid tale at Notes from Madrid.
Colin Davies says there’s a lot of misery ahead for the Spanish economy.
The Times reprint their original report on the 1937 Bombing of Guernica.
Mark
30 Apr 07 at 3:54 pm
It is weird, but I have never had any problems with pickpockets in Madrid at all…Loads of people tell me X has been mugged or Y had money stolen.
I don’t know if this is because I am a bit darker than most British tourists or I manage not to look like I am on holiday? At last I can thank my Irish genes for something!
greytop
1 May 07 at 2:01 pm
Guernica: I recently downloaded a Katie Melua song about “Market day in Guernica” which is hauntingly beautiful. A few days later I picked up a Spanish magazine which carried a translation of the Times article. It occurred to me that this was probably the first time many Spaniards had read such an account. What man does to fellow man in the name of progress! And how little we have changed in the intervening 70 years.
Ben
1 May 07 at 2:53 pm
Exactly… There have been more than a few Guernica type incidents at the hands of the coalition of the willing in the last few years…