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Pisa bar fined €1000 for charging Spanish tourist €26 for 3 * (coffee + brioche)

Mr Baldie — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:49:22 +0000

Here. Apparently the barman thought the guy was from Barcelona and wanted to make him feel at home. Why on earth was crucifixion along the Appian Way abolished?

Patrick Leigh Fermor on taking a town for the first time

Mr Baldie — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:03:53 +0000

With details of a free, self-guided walk from Schiphol Airport to Amsterdam's red-light district, for you, Sinterklaas, and all others of exceptional holiness.

Free self-guided walk from Barcelona airport to Barcelona

Mr Baldie — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:48:59 +0000

Via the Llobregat delta, the Mercabarna wholesale food market, the Nissan car factory, a lively Sunday clothes market, decaying light industry and remains of slums, and the cemetery and castle of Montjuïc.

Bad Santa vigilante hits crime-ridden Barcelona

Mr Baldie — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:01:58 +0000

In c/ Parlament. Ms Santamaria (geddit) gasped in alarm, but Santa didn't blink. CC for commercial use by MJS. More.

But is that acorn-fed Iberian black pig or shoe leather you’re chomping?

Mr Baldie — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:22:27 +0000

Illicit upgrading of jamón serrano to jamón ibérico de bellota, fraud prevention, and a statistical account of why a pig undergoing free-range fattening needs at least a hectare of oak forest.

How María Isabel Cuellar fixed her defective tortillas

Mr Baldie — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:42:35 +0000

A quick review of votives.

Look for a good guide, not an official one

Mr Baldie — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:32:39 +0000

In which I discuss anonymous threats from the official guide mafia, and take a brief look at some of 18th and 19th century Spain's stranger tourist gurus.

In the footsteps of Spartacus

Mr Baldie — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:06:43 +0000

Instructions on how to walk along the Appian Way to Rome from Ciampino Airport.

Conan the Barbarian (1982) Making-of Tour

Mr Baldie — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:43:41 +0000

I'm off through Soria, Valladolid and Zamora later this month with some folks, and pointed out to some other folks who wanted to see where Arnold trod 30 years ago that, although Shadizar has yet to be located, Doom's Hyborian Zamora may actually be the real Zamora on the Portuguese border, rather than a stony [...]

The physical invention of historical Barcelona

Mr Baldie — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:05:38 +0000

And how to sell it to tourists.