Lumpsuckerpig from the forums has set up a Skype cast called Spanish Notes (thanks also to Viajero, see forum posts here and here), and we will be chatting in Spanish today at 3 pm GMT, come and join us and let’s see how it goes!
Update: time change to 3 pm GMT, sorry, more planning next time to avoid this happening again!
Just do a search for Spanish Notes on the Upcoming Skype Casts page and you should find us. Hasta luego!
Somehow my friends and I, hoping for an Arsenal win, managed to end up watching the game in a bar in Madrid full of Barcelona supporters! We didn’t hang around at the end of the game… (Press clipping from El Mundo)
Update: … and some Catalans use it as an opportunity to tout independence again, see comments below.
Update 2: Looting, 45 arrests, and 107 injured in Barcelona celebrations (article here in Spanish). To all the banner wavers who claim ‘Catalonia is not Spain’ – perhaps you are right: this would never happen in Spain.
…and added some pics to the Notes from Spain Flickr set. Keep adding yours when you get the chance!
1- Go to Google
2- Type in the word “Failure”
3- Instead of clicking “Google Search,” click “I’m Feeling Lucky.”
4- Spread the word before the people at Google “fix” it.
El Mundo have switched to Google maps for their street finder service, which, in hybrid mode, maps steet names onto sattelite photos of Spanish cities and towns. Little red arrows even tell you the direction of traffic! So, for ten points, which town have I zoomed in on above? Image © Google.
Ingredients (6 people)
1 litre of milk (full fat)
100 gr sugar
100 gr icing sugar
1 cinnamon stick (about 6 cm / 2.5 inches long)
Peel of 1 lemon
4 egg whites
Cinnamon powder
A few drops of lemon juice
A very small pinch of salt
Preparation
Pour the milk into a saucepan together with the cinnamon stick, lemon peel and normal sugar. Turn the hob on and let it simmer for 5 minutes while you stir it with a wodden spoon to disolve the sugar. Then pour it in a bowl and let it cool down.
When the milk is at room temperature remove the lemon peel and the cinnamon stick and place the bowl in the freezer until the mixture is very cold but not frozen.
Now place the egg whites in a bowl with a few drops of lemon juice and a very small pinch of salt (both of the last ingredients help the egg whites to rise), then mix them until they are snowy (punto de nieve). Then add the icing sugar little by little while continuing to mix.
Take out the mixture from the freezer and add the merangue little by little, gently folding it into the milk to get the appropriate consitency. Now keep it in the fridge, and put it in the freezer 15 to 20 minutes before serving to improve the consistency even further. If you keep it in the freezer until it freezes, then you will need to put it through the blender before serving.
Serve it in tall cocktail glasses with plenty of cinnamon powder sprinkled on top.
Note that if you have an ice cream machine you can also use this recipie to make Leche Merengada ice cream.
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Before Christmas I reported on a hotel that had been mistakenly built on the Cabo de Gata coast in the province of Almeria. The developers had been erroneously granted permission to build on protected land.
Good news today as its imminent destruction has been confirmed by Manuel Chaves, President of the region of Andalusia (El Mundo article here). It cost the region 2.3 million euros to pay off the owners, but reports confirm that the deal is done and the beach shall soon be returned to its original form.
This is fantastic news for the coast of Spain, and in particular the Cabo de Gata national park, one of the few remaining stretches of Spanish coast not plagued by mass-tourism and concrete monstrosities.
Thanks to lumpsuckerpig for the heads-up on this in the forums.
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