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The Bread & Butter Poll

A quick poll about Bread & Butter. This trade fair nets around 100 million euros for Barcelona and it looks like it’s packing it’s bags and going back to Berlin where it started. Even Jordi Hereu the mayor of Barcelona told the organisers of the event to think twice about going back to Berlin. What [...]

Steve | January 23rd, 2009 | Continued

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First emergency water supplies reach Barcelona

The ‘Sichem Defender’, the first tanker loaded with emergency domestic water supplies from Tarragona, arrived in Barcelona port this morning at 8.30am.
It will take just seventeen hours to unload the 19,000 cubic litres on board, that were pumped from aquifers of the Camp de Tarragona and Reus.
In total, the water has been subjected to four [...]

catalunya spain | May 13th, 2008 | Continued

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Barcelona to eliminate more than 4,300 Franco plaques

Barcelona is to eliminate over 4,300 plaques and remnants from buildings and façades from the General Franco era. They will also be taking away statues and fascist monuments such as those dedicated to “Primo de Rivera“.Horta-Guinardó, Nou Barris and Sarrià-Sant Gervasì are where most of these Franco relics are to be found.
Most of these plaques [...]

admin | April 10th, 2008 | Continued

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Max Mosley really should get his coat and leave

I really do think Max Mosley should get his coat and leave…..forever! To think that this guy cost McLaren 100 million dollars for the same thing that Renault did and is still sitting pretty in his connolly leather FIA president’s chair is beyond me.
I’m glad that the rest of the F1 fraternity are turning [...]

catalonia spain | April 5th, 2008 | Continued

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About this Site

Welcome, bienvenidos and benvinguts to Life in Catalonia. The purpose of this website is to be an informative weblog of anything to do with Catalonia. Have you been here for a while and think you’ve found paradise? Maybe you’ve been here 5 minutes and are itching to get back home! Have you had problems with [...]

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cine montjuic

Sala Montjuic is about to open its doors again to the public on 29th June for 5 long weeks. A great way to spend the cool breezy evenings in Barcelona in this open air cinema.

19Jun2009 | Steve | 1 comment | Continued
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A rather austere Laporta offers 50M for Valencia’s David Villa

Barcelona’s Joan laporta should really take lessons in life and not resort to austerity.He should forget what Real Madrid does and rid himself of his nasty little inferiority complex that is leaving both himself and the great club that employs him in a ridiculed state.

15Jun2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Primark opens in Diagonal Mar, Barcelona

Primark opens today in Barcelona’s Diagonal Mar and this will be Primark’s first store in Catalonia. Diagonal Mar opened in 2001 and is the biggest retail centre in this region of Spain and one of the biggest in the country.
No value was placed on the contract. Quinlan Private is led by Irish financier Derek Quinlan.

Primark [...]

9Jun2009 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Barcelona Extreme Sports Festival 2009

This is the second edition of The Barcelona Extreme Sports Festival. In the first festival last year in October over 40000 people showed up to watch 200 pros and up to 500 amateurs participate in a range of exciting extreme sports. This year you can expect an even bigger turn-out when the extreme festival [...]

31May2009 | Steve | 3 comments | Continued
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27th International Comic Fair in Barcelona

Anyone interested in comics and super heroes should not miss the 27th International Comic Fair in Barcelona. It will take place on may 29th til June 1st and there will be a host of surprises.

26May2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Catalonia y FC Barcelona bajan los pantalones

Yes it’s official, Catalonia and FC Barcelona have dropped their trousers when it comes to supporting their views on Catalonia as a nation, free Catalonia and Catalonia is a country blah blah blah regarding playing the final of La Copa Del Rey.
Basques and Catalans mingled together at the Mestalla stadium in Valencia and then promptly [...]

17May2009 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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TV1 chief sacked after Spanish anthem is booed

MADRID - Spain’s state television sacked its head of sports coverage on Thursday, saying it was a mistake not to have shown a football crowd from Catalonia and the Basque Country booing the Spanish national anthem during the country’s Cup final.
The move by Television Espanola to break away from coverage at the stadium in Valencia [...]

15May2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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On the Button - Jensen Button that is

Looks like Jensen Button is running away with the world championship so far. After another great performance by him and team mate Rubens Barichello (another double) with Aussie Mark Webber 3rd and team mate Sebastian Vettel 4th something is telling me McLaren and Ferrari are nowhere near fast catching up to Brawn’s rocket!
This is Jensen’s [...]

11May2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Chelsea robbed by Barça

A last minute goal by Andrés Iniesta made sure Barcelona went through to the final of the champions League in Rome on May 27th. After watching the game last night and enjoying what looks like the only team this year who have managed to rattle Barça’s cage, I must admit I am a bit gutted [...]

7May2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Spanish Grand Prix at Montmelo 2009

Bahrain is over and there’s a lot of work to do before the Grand Prix at Montmelo in Catalonia on May 8th-10th 2009. Jensen Button has won 3 of the 4 races so far. Can he make Montmelo 4 out of 5?

27Apr2009 | Steve | 2 comments | Continued
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