No new posts here for the next month...

Because of a family illness I'll be away in Australia until late April. Best wishes until then to you, my valued readers.

A pluralist Spain...?

This guy talks a lot of sense in an area where common sense is rare...

"...the pluralist fervor that was alive in Spain during the final years of the dictatorship, when young people from Granada would sing Lluís Llach [a Catalan song-writer] as if he were one of their own, half understanding the lyrics of his songs."

New listing...

This blog (described as "a sharp look at the often baffling world of politics and social issues in Catalonia and Spain...) is now linked to the Barcelona Blogosphere page on BarcelonaLife.com - a good quality site with plenty of strong info on the city and the region.