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Breaking news: Spanair bankrupt (updated)

Posted in Blog, Spain, tagged , , , , on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

It’s just been announced that Catalan airline Spanair has gone bankrupt late this evening. All flights are cancelled although they have released a statement saying that those affected will be offered reduced flight transit on Air Europa, Iberia and Vueling flights. (28/1 13:00 Update: The statement is now offline maybe due to high traffic number [...]

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Front row at Camp Nou

Posted in Blog, FC Barcelona, tagged , , , , , on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Last night I got front row seats to watch Barcelona destroy poor local “rivals” Hospitalet 9-0 in the second leg of the Copa del Rey. I suppose you could say it’s a bit like Manchester United playing Salford in the FA Cup. The slightly surprising thing is that Hospitalet only managed to lose 1-0 in [...]

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My Voddler “Spotify for films” review

Posted in Blog, Software, Spain, tagged , , , , , , on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This review was published on OnSoftware. Voddler has the potential to be a great film service although the lack of film choice in the Spanish pilot version and general usability still need much improvement for it to be really popular. Just under two years ago we were on the first blogs to test and review [...]

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Las Arenas – From Boom to Bust and Bust-Ups

Posted in My Published Magazine Articles, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 7, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Maybe not since the Sagrada Familia has a construction project run into so many problems as the highly prestigious Las Arenas bullring restoration project in Placa España. It’s amazing that since writing this story over a year ago, construction at the troubled €100m project only resumed a few weeks ago. When I interviewed chief Spanish [...]

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A State of Independence? The Catalan Estatut

Posted in My Published Magazine Articles, tagged , , , , , on February 14, 2010 | 17 Comments »

It’s exactly four years since I wrote this article and amazingly, the furore over The Estatut continues. Graeme at the South of Watford blog has done a good job of bringing things up to date at the end of 2009 with this post. Spain’s Constitutional Court is still to rule whether the Estatut is in [...]

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Spain grants passports to International Brigades

Posted in Blog, Spain, tagged , , , on June 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’ve always had huge admiration for the International Brigade volunteers – 2,500 of which were from the UK – who left their comfortable lives behind to go to Spain and fight against Franco during the Spanish Civil War. It’s lovely to see the few that are still alive were honoured yesterday by the Spanish government [...]

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Two cups in the bag – one (very big one) to go

Posted in Blog, FC Barcelona, tagged , , , , on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Barcelona won the league last night due to Madrid’s 3-1 defeat to Villareal. It’s always an underwhelming way to win a title when it’s due to results elsewhere and as you can see below, the reaction in the penya bar in Gracia I watched it in was a bit more understated than the win against [...]

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One cup in the bag – two to go

Posted in Blog, FC Barcelona, tagged , , , , , , on May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »

For once I got it right. Barça administered a 4-1 drubbing of Atletico although considering the gulf between them in the league, it’s hardly a shock. It is, surprisingly, the first time Barça have won the Copa del Rey in 11 years. Going 1-0 up was probably the worst thing Bilbao could have done as [...]

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Spain falling into deflation?

Posted in Blog, Spain, tagged , , , , , , on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Even the New York Times is keeping a close eye on what’s happening in Spain noting that falling prices are a worrying sign of deflation that characterised the great depression. With the combination of rising unemployment and falling prices, economists fear Spain may be in the early grip of deflation, a hallmark of both the [...]

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Abortion in Barcelona: On the Rise and in the News

Posted in My Published Magazine Articles, tagged , , on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Abortion has always been a controversial issue in a country with strong Catholic roots. It wasn’t until 1985 that the practice was legalised in Spain and it’s still only available in cases of rape, deformed foetuses or if the pregnancy posed a serious threat to the health of the mother. And whilst Spain may now [...]

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