Comments on: This week’s links… http://www.notesfromspain.com/2007/04/28/this-weeks-links/ Podcasts and comment on travel, tapas, learning Spanish and living in Spain, plus beautiful Spain photos. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben http://www.notesfromspain.com/2007/04/28/this-weeks-links/comment-page-1/#comment-12686 Ben Tue, 01 May 2007 13:53:53 +0000 http://www.notesfromspain.com/767/#comment-12686 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... 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…

]]> By: greytop http://www.notesfromspain.com/2007/04/28/this-weeks-links/comment-page-1/#comment-12685 greytop Tue, 01 May 2007 13:01:07 +0000 http://www.notesfromspain.com/767/#comment-12685 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. 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.

]]> By: Mark http://www.notesfromspain.com/2007/04/28/this-weeks-links/comment-page-1/#comment-12613 Mark Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:54:35 +0000 http://www.notesfromspain.com/767/#comment-12613 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! 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!

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