tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719733343716221783.post5652301246650950479..comments2023-07-29T02:57:00.603-05:00Comments on Tabakskollegium-Mekelnborg: A Great Time To Visit Cataloniamekelnborghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02269195057608159822noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719733343716221783.post-45376121793903655842012-10-03T07:07:34.385-05:002012-10-03T07:07:34.385-05:00UPDATE: My Kollega says there were lots of chiquit...UPDATE: My Kollega says there were lots of chiquitas, he saw them all over Las Ramblas, and other parts, but unfortunately ALL of them were very busy and seemed to be on their way to someplace else. Nada.mekelnborghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02269195057608159822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719733343716221783.post-15561809119283463572012-10-02T07:21:25.794-05:002012-10-02T07:21:25.794-05:00Ray are you sure you're English, I think you m...Ray are you sure you're English, I think you might have just come in with the Normans. <br /><br />These are some choice comments, though, advancing the topic.<br /><br /> I think the premise is there is a balance that is about right, somewhere between complete ignorance on the one side but without going all the way to Hitlerness near the other extreme.<br /><br />I go on the Daily Mail sometimes to do the red and green arrows, one of my little pleasures, and I keep seeing people there attacking ignorance as though it's a bad thing. But isn't there an appeal to it when looked at in this light? At least closer to the ignorant end of the spectrum, a couple notches off, maybe not all the way.<br /><br />We have lots of immigrants, here, who embrace and welcome the same thing with a different point of view, they are glad to be out of there, and there's also the fresh start/clean slate effect in the foreign legion.<br /><br />So I told the Kollega a few things, he could hardly miss running into it, but closed off quickly with the song. Here we have soothing guitars, boobs, if you look close, and the Cave Man takes Cave Woman approach to simplify and lighten it back up.<br /><br />mekelnborghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02269195057608159822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719733343716221783.post-50721160955030897222012-10-02T04:44:32.531-05:002012-10-02T04:44:32.531-05:00Good to see you blogging again - you've been m...Good to see you blogging again - you've been missed.<br /><br />On the subject of Catalonia (wide definition) I know very little, but nearly 20 years ago I took a vacation near Perpignan, and I was informed by my host (strange chap) that the local French Catalans were like the Algerians - i.e. people you might possibly hire to work in your garden. There did seem to be some tension there. Then, of course, the implied conflict between Catalans and non-Catalans on the Spanish side of the border is well known, and it became very obvious, driving a rental car with French plates in Spain, that the Spanish and French do not necessarily get on like a house on fire either - on two occasions in Figueras I was cut up in traffic to the point of being forced onto the sidewalk.<br /><br />The circle was completed when I was informed that the French and Spanish Catalans do not like each other a lot. I spent the rest of my holiday avoiding eye-contact with just about everyone.MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719733343716221783.post-12600948472801574792012-10-01T22:36:57.016-05:002012-10-01T22:36:57.016-05:00Nice to have you back after your 8 months off, whe...Nice to have you back after your 8 months off, where've you been, I thought you'd dropped off into the void?<br />Never to a Catalan he's Spanish, especially not a Basque, its strange how although they are Spanish, but they still feel the strong lean to there old ways, I suppose its the same for the Scots, Welsh and Irish in the UK, as I'm English I just accept I'm English from the UK, (shrug!)<br />Catalonia's a beautiful place, I've been there twice, unfortunately I didn't get to see much history as I was on holiday with my parents and was around 11-14 years old and all I wanted to do was jump in the swimming pool and try and pinch any alcohol I could off my Dad.....Oh those were the days!!!!!!Ray Rousellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352596392520905197noreply@blogger.com