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Attack of the killer pheasant

Mr Baldie — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:52:34 +0000

With some folk geography and a would-be eggcorn.

Video in Spanish by foreign language students warning against street crime in Barcelona

Mr Baldie — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:09:46 +0000

I thought the reënactments in the second half were rather good. One of the commenters, however, mistook the medium for the message and was seized by an attack of lust. (Via Robbed in Barcelona. Here's one I managed to photograph, in Vilafranca del Penedès.)

Please God let Deutsche Bahn run Spain’s trains

Mr Baldie — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:11:31 +0000

For example, a decade later, Deutsche Bahn continues to offer better Spanish timetable info than Renfe, the data's owner, and in English.

21 today-ish

Mr Baldie — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:07:01 +0000

A quick pannieregyric to my Agu Sport Quorum canvas udders.

Free walk west from Gatwick to Ockley station, for trains to London and south

Mr Baldie — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:37:47 +0000

Here. More photos some other time.

Creative pyromania

Mr Baldie — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:37:54 +0000

The best way to avoid the repetition of Valencia et al's disastrous forest fires and create walkable woodlands.

Introducing the Gaudí Experience theme park

Mr Baldie — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:38:49 +0000

"The genius, the mysterious, the controversial, the visionary, the innovative, the excesive... The Icon."

Excellent mashup of the visible and the invisible on the Appian way

Mr Baldie — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:13:40 +0000

Robert Kaster & spouse did this, and much, much more, and the resulting book - thanks tender sender! - is thoroughly recommended. (And don't worry: seasoned jaywalkers won't find the first bit anything like as frightening as they did: they're drivers rather than walkers, and I'll bet a really pedantic researcher could dig out something [...]

Beyond spacetime

Mr Baldie — Mon, 28 May 2012 21:55:33 +0000

Dimension inflation in Girona, Spain.

Ring cycle tour crash blossoms

Mr Baldie — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:34:19 +0000

Someone has forwarded mail from Martin Randall Travel offering "Ring cycle tours in Beriln and Seattle", and I guess there'll be a great flowering of this delicious ambiguity as we approach the bicentenary of Wagner's birth. Hardo Wagner makes touring bikes, R&B Wagner make bike racks, and Peter Wagner created the WhymCycle, but none of [...]