Standing in a Spanish Doorway

I'm afraid it's goodbye. But thanks for the memories...and thanks for reading! After 14 years here and 832 posts, and my intro to on...

 

Standing in a Spanish Doorway: Spanish Government Complaint Box Causes Boomerang ... : "The Spanish Minister of Employment and Socia...

  Photo:  https://www.corneliakraft.com/ When Nadia was running downstairs from the 6th floor, doing up her dressing gown, cursing the wind ...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/01ogjKyUpngHPNpQMcuneG Really informative chat with a guy who clearly knows his literature (and I don'...

 

  They wanted to stop the depopulation of the municipality... and they did it! [Edited photo by Francisco Lomero] "In mid-June, an all-...

  "This song is dedicated to all the people...who make of a touch and a look, something far superior to the language of words."

  Japanese pictorial map of Europe from the year 1932.

  [Illustration: Leonardo Berbesi] "The history of the dish begins with the persecution of the Jews in the Iberian Peninsula, during th...

6 years ago today I spoke to  ABCTV  (Australia) about the Barcelona terror attacks. Driven by fanatical religious extremists, a white van z...

Standing in a Spanish Doorway: "You Hated Spain" : (Ted Hughes, below) [A poem by Ted Hughes, which I dedicate to my t...

  Thanks for your very complimentary words , Andrew M... " I found Brett's very personal account of his travels through Spain a mov...

         "Two masters of the fanciful and philosophical, together..." "For more than half a century, this unusual yet organic...

A captivating short documentary on  Etsuro Sotoo,  the Japanese immigrant stone cutter who ended up being a chief supervisor at the Sagrada ...

Reading two short extracts and doing a Q and A session with an audience at Fahrenheit 451, an independent bookshop in Barcelona. Gary Gibso...

 

[ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP via Getty Images] [ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP via Getty Images] [Pic: ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP via Getty Images] Moroccan politicians ...

I'm happy to say I'll be launching my non-fiction book, "Slow Travels in Unsung Spain" at this unique independent booksho...

On the same day that the neighbouring region's new ultra right culture Minister is installed,...at a cafe in a coastal town in Catalonia...