All Posts Tagged With: "catalunya spain"

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End of the matadors in Catalonia

End of the matadors in Catalonia might just be a reality if a certain group of people have their own way.

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7Oct2009 | Catalonia | 3 comments | Continued
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La Mercè 2009 Barcelona

Every September, Catalonia’s wonderful capital city Barcelona is turned into a dream world of fantasy. I hope you are ready because the Mercè 2009 has just got under way! Learn Spanish Online

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23Sep2009 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued
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The Sitges film festival 2009

The Sitges film festival is the number one fantasy film festival in the world and represents, at the same time, the cultural expression with the most media impact in Catalonia. Sitges film festival 09.

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15Sep2009 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued
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11 reasons to hate driving in Spain

I’ve put together 11 things to hate driving in Spain just for fun because we love Spaniards really!
1. Spaniards have little respect and are not very courteous on the road. Just try pulling out of a turning and see who stops. You might be in for a long one!
2. Hogging the outside lanes on motorways. [...]

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14Jul2009 | Catalonia | 5 comments | 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 [...]

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17May2009 | Catalonia | 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 [...]

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15May2009 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued
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Pre-registrations start for schools in Catalonia

Monday saw the start of the pre-registrations for entry into schools in Catalonia.
From 23rd March until 3rd April, families with children from the age of 3 to 16 can submit their applications for them to be entered into the school of their choice.
There will also be a further acceptance of applications on the 8th to [...]

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25Mar2009 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued
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Pathetic TMB throws rattle out of pram and bans adverts

TMB can only be described as pathetic for vetoing and advert for their buses which reminds the Catalan government that they should include a checkbox which says “Castellano” on the enrolement papers for schools here in Catalonia. This check box is for parents to tick so the school knows that their children should be schooled [...]

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18Mar2009 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued
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Golliwogs Jamjars and Conguitos

Everything seems to be getting out of hand lately. I mean that twit Jonathan Ross gets off virtually scot free for his stupid and horrible prank he played on Manuel from “Fawlty Towers” aka Andrew Sachs and Carol Thatcher gets given her cards because of her “Golliwog” jest. A bit of a joke really and [...]

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10Feb2009 | Catalonia | 5 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

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23Jan2009 | Steve | 3 comments | Continued
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Weekly news round up in Catalonia and the world

Good news, the Israel – Palestine boxing match seems to be coming to an end with both sides announcing a cease-fire, not before Israel sending over one last rocket, though. Anyone said anything about having the last word?
Real Madrid beat Osasuna last night 3-1- a rather pathetic game where Osasuna were denied two penalties, alright [...]

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19Jan2009 | Steve | 0 comments | Continued
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Real Madrid president Calderon steps down today

Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon will step down on Friday following newspaper allegations of irregularities at the club’s general assembly last month, Spanish media reported on Thursday.
The reports said Calderon, who has denied any wrongdoing, was pressured into resigning by several members of the Real management board and will be replaced by Vicente Boluda, one [...]

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16Jan2009 | Steve | 0 comments | Continued
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Carta a La Vanguardia sobre los malos tratos

Estoy muy agradecida de poder haber leido un artículo (30/12/2009) tan valiente ,veraz y real. Muy a pesar de estar vivendo en una sociedad de lo más avanzada y progresista es lamentable palpar como los malos tratos a niños ya sean físicos , los más visibles y aún más los invisibles al ojo [...]

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30Dec2008 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued
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Some bizarre Christmas traditions from Catalonia

These Catalan traditions usually come as quite a shock to the rest of mankind but are nonetheless quite fun although strange at the same time if you get my meaning. Ok so we know that Christmas has its roots in pagan celebrations, but where do these guys come from?
This little guy below is “El Caganer”.  [...]

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22Dec2008 | Catalonia | 3 comments | Continued
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A funny ole two weeks

It certainly has been a funny ole two weeks – Alonso won the Singapur grand prix in his Seat ibiza – sorry Flavio! Both Real madrid and Barcelona got off to a reasonable start in The Champions League – yeah footy’s back on the TV in case you forgot!
I’m going to give a thumbs down [...]

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2Oct2008 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued