Saturday, 17 April 2021
Remember me
There’s a saying, “What you see is what you get”, but do we always see correctly?We’ve had rats in our house recently; one or even two woodland rats, and they are very big! Our house is in a beautiful...
Dear A,Good to hear from you in the UK. We are alright, thank you, and glad to hear you are too. The comment about the prevalent political problems affecting us is, indeed, pertinent. We are distressed.We...
Tourism is booming in Barcelona, despite three notable factors: one, the terrorist attacks of just two years ago; two, the so-called “tourism-phobia” that has gripped the city in recent years and seen...
When the October 14th sentencing of Catalonia’s political prisoners was reported in England, my 92 year old aunt - who normally has as much contact with Catalonia as I do with the waters of the Limpopo...
Every Catalan knows we’re in for a rough ride in October. There’ll be the anniversary of the October 1st 2017 referendum, in which large numbers of peaceful voters were punched and battered by Spanish...
This morning, with the dying of this summer and noticing the shortening of the hours of light in the evening, I remembered that exactly two decades ago I went with my new wife to live in the city of Kyoto,...
With a population just below that of Barcelona, at around 1.5m inhabitants, Estonia is one of the EU’s less inhabited countries. Furthermore, together with its two southern Baltic neighbours, Lithuania...
The British Prime Minister has said repeatedly that he’d “rather be dead in a ditch” than ask for a delay in the deadline for leaving Europe. Of course, he’s speaking about Brexit. And now that...
I was recently having a chat with an acquaintance from another country who mentioned she was in a parents’ Whatsapp group for her child’s school and at the beginning the Catalan parents had made a...
You know that queasy feeling that you are being watched? Of course you do.But I’m not talking about deep State or online data capture. This is about the unnerving sense that non casual, uncomfortably...
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