Sally Davies

No es exagerado decir que todos mis amigos británicos y todos los miembros de mi familia* sabían perfectamente lo malo que sería todo esto.

*Excepto mi tía racista, que votó a favor.

Solo por curiosidad, de verdad crees que los que vivimos aquí votamos por esta pesadilla?

I've bought WELLIES

Bit pass-agg

Seriously guys I will translate this stuff pro bono just to not have to look at it every day

"…and the trains will be free for a month" – this is how you run a rail service that's had a really rough week.

Fairly. Opened last summer.

Just a few of the superb things I ate at Casa Fiero today. What a find. #Barcelona

YouTube video by DRM News BREAKING NEWS: Spain Rejects Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ as EU Pushes Back at Davos | AC1Z

Despite everything that's going on, it is nice to feel that there are some adults in the room after all.

Coneixo cap periodista d'art de Barcelona (English, català, español)?

Muere Cecilia Giménez, autora de la restauración del 'Ecce homo' que dio la vuelta al mundo Cecilia Giménez, la pintora aficionada responsable del fenómeno viral del 'Ecce homo' de Borja, con el...

Spain loses a national treasure.

High-speed rail passengers in Spain shoot up 77% and prices drop 40% thanks to competition | Sur in English The national market and competition regulator (CNMC) reveals that the arrival of Iryo and Ouigo drove passenger numbers to record highs, while rail outstrips air travel o

High-speed rail passengers in Spain shoot up 77% and prices drop 40% thanks to competition.

Nazis, artists and the Holy Grail: The fascinating 1000-year history of Spain’s Montserrat A millennial monastery, a miraculous Madonna and a dramatic landscape make ‘saw-tooth mountain’ one of Catalonia’s most powerful symbols

I think this a gift link, LMK if not and you'd like to read it.

Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Spaniards split from their city centres What's a city without citizens?

“Between 2020 and 2025, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment rose by 59% in Madrid and 47% in Barcelona” @brendanboyle.bsky.social

a man wearing glasses says stop me before i make a complete imbecile of myself ALT: a man wearing glasses says stop me before i make a complete imbecile of myself

Ah, lovely. Madrid regional govt is bunging Woody Allen €1.5 million to film there and include the word 'Madrid' in the title – cf Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which had the same deal. H/T @ianmount.com's excellent Bubble newsletter.

1906.

Things are kicking off on my street #barcelona #halloween #totssants

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Did everyone but me know about this? If you can't make it to/afford In-Edit, apparently lots of the music docos come out on this afterwards, and there's tons of good art and photography docos (plus some great films). All free.

*Scowls darkly*

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London. Apparently the flight is massively overbooked but he's assuming they'll sit three to a seat and it'll be fine.

My friend is about to get on a flight from Barcelona with a troupe of castellers.

Sorted. Turned out to be a case of going to the Comisaría on a different day and getting a different funcionario. Cómo no.

Managed to get another cita on Tuesday at different comisaría in hope that not all funcionarios hold the same view. Will let you know.

Screenshot: Statement by the Chairman and CEO of Aena, Maurici Lucena, on the announcement by Ryanair It would be hard to find in contemporary business history another case such as Ryanair where the dissonance between a company’s operational excellence and the dishonesty of its communications policy is so striking. Ryanair's impertinence and uninhibited public demands on democratic governments in countries where it operates its flights with the aim of obtaining economic advantages, shed light upon two deep-rooted and unedifying characteristics of this airline company. The first is that Ryanair has a disturbingly plutocratic idea of the political system, i.e. it seeks to intimidate public opinion by slashing its flights, calls for the resignation of ministers from half of Europe and the president of the European Commission, mocks democratically elected politicians, and calls for laws to be changed in its favour because it believes that government decision-making should bend to the interests of the most economically powerful companies such as Ryanair, instead of protecting the "general interest". The second characteristic is Ryanair's communications and institutional relations policy, which is in permanent and deliberate conflict with objective facts and truthfulness. Here are a few examples:

It sounds like Spanish national airport operator AENA is very much over Ryanair and MOL.

Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is.

www.aena.es/en/press/sta...

I don't know where you are but in BCN at least they release the appts for the following week at 3pm on Thurs. It's like trying to get Glastonbury tickets, you just keep smashing the button.

(but yes you can definitely renew it before it expires and I HIGHLY suggest that you do…)

I couldn't get an appt for T for months, finally got one in Terrassa, where they turned her away because her card expired the day before. Said she needed the green card from the Oficina de Extranjería, which is appt only -- but you can't get the appt if you don't have a valid TIE. Spectacular work.