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A View of Madrid: Castañas asando sobre una fuego abierto
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Monday, 7 December 2009. Castañas asando sobre una fuego abierto. Normally there would be no reason for me to be interested in anything the slightest agricultural. News of the European Common Agricultural Policy would have me yawning. A bumper grain harvest would mean nothing. Even a good year for grapes and the wine-makers, unless grown around Bordeaux, would not get me excited. Then a friend gave me the news. 8220;This has been a very good year for castañas”, she said. The nutritional facts about chest...
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Jetsettera: Mercado de San Miguel
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Sunday, July 10, 2011. Mercado de San Miguel. And now, some pretty pictures and a mini Spanish lesson. Pata negra = black-footed ham legs. Más jamón = more ham. Merengues de fresa o de café = strawberry or coffee meringues. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Outlet Malls and Bird Shit. A Good Yarn (.Crafting Pun, Apologies). Mercado de San Miguel.
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Jetsettera: Outlet Malls and Bird Shit
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Outlet Malls and Bird Shit. Isn't there some kind of saying? Sometimes you're the bird. sometimes you're the American girl eating gazpacho in the shade at an outdoor cafe.". Centro comercial = shopping mall. My Friday had. well. let's just say ups and downs. But what my afternoon lacked in an absence of bird shit on my shoulder and arm (sigh. yes, twice. Well I mean. it does. But that's just the way the expat cookie crumbles. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Jetsettera: August 2010
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Thursday, August 12, 2010. There's this scene in my very favorite movie,. Some Like It Hot. And WHERE did you get that accent? Nobody talks like that! I feel that this is an ominous start to the day. Optimists might say that there's nowhere else for this day to go but up, but find me a woman who's still an optimist after spending nine hours in an over-air-conditioned cubicle with soaking wet pants that obviously won't dry because. She's still in them*. And I'll show you a filthy, filthy liar. Well, truth...
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A View of Madrid: December 2011
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Monday, 12 December 2011. Marmite and what's this Radio Four? We all have our rituals. One of mine is to start each Saturday with coffee, toast and Marmite and to listen to either the News Quiz or the Now! I mean, did you notice the reference to Marmite. In the UK this foodstuff divides the nation. For the uninitiated, it is a dark, salty, almost black, paste made originally from the grunge found at the bottom of brewer's vats. You could almost describe it as industrial waste! This shop sell everything f...
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A View of Madrid: Peaceful Protests, Past and Present
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Monday, 30 April 2012. Peaceful Protests, Past and Present. Saturday evening traffic flow meant the bus was making slow progress, but as the number 53 turned off Goya on to Recoletos with twenty minutes to go, I knew I would make it. It was just a matter of a right at Cibeles, the penultimate stop, and a swift final zoom up to Sol. But I was cutting it fine. It was a very important date. But “NEW Spain”? Carlos III on horseback in the Plaza del Sol. Leopold de Gregorio, Marqués of Esquilache. As king of ...
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A View of Madrid: April 2012
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Monday, 30 April 2012. Peaceful Protests, Past and Present. Saturday evening traffic flow meant the bus was making slow progress, but as the number 53 turned off Goya on to Recoletos with twenty minutes to go, I knew I would make it. It was just a matter of a right at Cibeles, the penultimate stop, and a swift final zoom up to Sol. But I was cutting it fine. It was a very important date. But “NEW Spain”? Carlos III on horseback in the Plaza del Sol. Leopold de Gregorio, Marqués of Esquilache. As king of ...
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A View of Madrid: Madrid - No solution for pollution?
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Saturday, 18 February 2012. Madrid - No solution for pollution? Let’s begin with something quite disgusting. During my first winter in. I caught a cold. That’s not unusual, it’s normal to catch colds in winter and I had had them before. What was new to me was that this was the first time I had to visit a pharmacy and declare myself “constipado”, and that when I blew my nose, (this is the disgusting part) what came down was black. Soot black. I had been in. I had read that. I’m no expert, so I’...
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Aaron | A Year in the Mierda
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A Year in the Mierda. Our man in Madrid. November 9, 2011. Having left Madrid quite suddenly in the summer (leaving, naturally, a trail of broken hearts, flabbergasted accountants, half a tub of Marmite and some perfectly serviceable Yorkshire Tea bags) this blog shuddered to a jarring halt. Apologies, and thank … Continue reading →. June 24, 2011. May 27, 2011. Death in the Afternoon. Death in the Sun. May 24, 2011. May 18, 2011. Shall I lay on dinner? No, I’d rather you didn’t. It does tend to brui...
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A View of Madrid: November 2011
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Sunday, 27 November 2011. John Lennon said, “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans”. Well, I have made a plan. It faces me from the cork board on the wall behind my computer. It is a printed spread sheet telling me where I have to be from now until the end of the year. My life has suddenly become more than busy. One chance encounter led to a twenty five percent increase in my teaching duties – and took me to new areas of Madrid I had not seen before. I have written about Mad...Is Madr...
