Archive for February, 2006
A Dirty Week in Spain
Sunday, February 19th, 2006“Guiri!” the man shouted before turning a cannon and engulfing me in a cloud of white powder. I had been betrayed not by a pallid English complexion – all faces were equally blanched today – but by khaki shorts and t-shirt. Guiris (foreigners) were singled out for a particularly heavy artillery onslaught. Celebrations are often [...]


