Spanish stereotypes and Tordesillas' Meadow Bull
Like every year, the Spanish village of Tordesillas "celebrated" yesterday the festivity known as El Toro de la Vega (The Meadow Bull), which consists, as wikipedia well points, of slaughtering a bull by people on horseback or on foot. Groups defending animal rights protest against this brutality ye ...
Golden Time
AÑO 1 Hoy comprobaremos el resultado de un curioso experimento. Esta semana es turno de… > Golden Time ( Chiaki Kon, J.C.Staff, 2013, 24 CAPS) ¿Esta semana no hay frase graciosa al inicio del análisis? No, esta vez no. Me quité la nariz de payaso y me puse la bata de científico sin reservas. Siempre ...
Bad day with Multiple Sclerosis
I am past the stage with my Multiple Sclerosis of good days and bad days. All days are bad and some days are even worse. Today was an even worse day! We had friends coming to visit so the Day kicked off a little brisker than usual and I suffer from Primary progressive Multiple Sclerosis which means ...
Carpe Diem
Oh my…As we turn the corner, heading into fall, the year ahead is already coming into view. It's time to sign up for Spain, people! In fact, the course/holiday is about half full already! If you'd like to come, now is the time to decide to take the plunge…carpe diem! If you like travel, art, photogr ...
Conservative Read
Conservative Read Walter Williams: Multiculturalism is a failure FBI Unveils its Facial Recognition Database with 52 Million Photos to be Stored U.S. government to respond to Ebola pandemic with martial law and forced vaccines This Gun-Hating Hollywood Superstar Just Got Exposed As The Ultimate Hypo ...
Owner to Restore Jaguar XKE After "Miracle" Find in Shipping Container
Owner to Restore Jaguar XKE After "Miracle" Find in Shipping Container "When we located the vehicle, it was in a container bound for the Netherlands," said Javier Larios, of the CBP. The agency notified the carrier that the container should be returned to the Southern California port complex. When a ...
Go for it Scotland!
There was going to be a bigger post, but there was too little sleep. I'm not Scottish, but most of my family have lived in Scotland for 25 years now (my stepdad is from Scotland), and I visit there a couple of times a year. I have never lived there full time though, unless one counts summers between ...
Firefall by Peter Watts Part 1: Blindsight
Publisher: Head of Zeus Pages: 761 (inc. 51 pages of notes and references; Blindsight: 362 pages) Year: 2014 (25 September) Buy: Hardback, Kindle Source: Review copy Firefall presents, in one rather splendid and substantial volume, two science fiction novels by Peter Watts – Blindsight (first publis ...
BACK TO SCHOOL
Dear friends, students and other followers. I'm alive! I'm sorry for my long break but I needed holidays more than ever. Summer is over, another Summer in my village, in the almost forgotten village where my mother lived her childhood, in the Pirinees, a little bit of France and Portugal, sailing on ...
