Saturday, June 30, 2007

What a way to enjoy youself!

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Festa Major has converted Terrassa from a normal busy city into a traffic jam. The Ramblas has a stage and a funfair on it and a parallel ro...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Really?

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IT IS OFFICIAL! IT HAS COME TO PASS! I AM A CITIZEN OF CASTELLDEFELS! And to prove it I have a wodge of paper which has been scrutinized, ph...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

If it isn't one thing it's another!

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It was hardly a shock today to discover that my new bank book when fed into the BBVA machine completely buggered the thing up. The bank mana...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Give me strength, O Lord!

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All brushes with officialdom in Spain should be looked on as preparation for the Camino de Santiago. The endless walking; the suffering; the...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Who expects meaning?

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Is it encouraging or depressing to find out that there are actual eternal verities? That your ordinary life experience leads you to believe ...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Shine on Spanish Sun!

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St Johns Eve, it has to be said, was something of a disappointment. Instead of the crackling of roaring fires over which people were jumping...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

The night draws on apace!

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Sants railway station in the centre of Barcelona has been transformed into an eighteenth century vision of the grotesque and picturesque. T...
Friday, June 22, 2007

It's not the arriving it's the journey!

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Chaos is not the same in all countries. In Britain, the fatalistic acceptance of failure and even the grudging admiration for systems opera...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Weighed in the balance and found wanting - again!

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When I first went to Greece I went with the best of intentions. I had studied and researched the museums and excavations that I wanted to vi...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Enjoy!

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Very hot today. I suppose I could just leave it at that. ‘Very hot today’ is, after all, one of those phrases that I have moved country to b...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Catalan thoughts

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Barca failed to win the league. Gloom and doom from Toni’s mum who greeted us at the airport with an earpiece firmly plugged in and her atte...
Monday, June 18, 2007

Cutting loose!

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AT LAST! The title of the blog is now a reality. I am in Catalonia! Considering the length of time that it took to sell the house (I was rap...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

Keep looking!

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We are poor little lambs that have all gone astray: Baa! Baa! Baa! There is nothing more alluring than finding yourself an outsider. You try...
Saturday, June 09, 2007

To see, or not to see!

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Friday 8 th June - as you can see access to the internet is a moveable feast! Saint Bob Geldof once spurred me to precipitate action aft...