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Pisa bar fined €1000 for charging Spanish tourist €26 for 3 * (coffee + brioche)
Here. Apparently the barman thought the guy was from Barcelona and wanted to make him feel at home. Why on earth was crucifixion along the Appian Way abolished?
Patrick Leigh Fermor on taking a town for the first time
With details of a free, self-guided walk from Schiphol Airport to Amsterdam's red-light district, for you, Sinterklaas, and all others of exceptional holiness.
Free self-guided walk from Barcelona airport to Barcelona
Via the Llobregat delta, the Mercabarna wholesale food market, the Nissan car factory, a lively Sunday clothes market, decaying light industry and remains of slums, and the cemetery and castle of Montjuïc.
Bad Santa vigilante hits crime-ridden Barcelona
In c/ Parlament. Ms Santamaria (geddit) gasped in alarm, but Santa didn't blink. CC for commercial use by MJS. More.
But is that acorn-fed Iberian black pig or shoe leather you’re chomping?
Illicit upgrading of jamón serrano to jamón ibérico de bellota, fraud prevention, and a statistical account of why a pig undergoing free-range fattening needs at least a hectare of oak forest.
How María Isabel Cuellar fixed her defective tortillas
A quick review of votives.
Look for a good guide, not an official one
In which I discuss anonymous threats from the official guide mafia, and take a brief look at some of 18th and 19th century Spain's stranger tourist gurus.
