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An excerpt from a post I wrote in an interesting thread we have going over at Rebecca Fine’s forum:

Tonight I manifested one of the targets set during the course. I sang on stage at the WTF jam at Jamboree. This is famous Barcelona jam session and I have been going there for […]

Another of my musings from Rebecca Fine’s forum; this one about how APPEARANCES influence (or not) our state of mind. Taken out of context it’s very incomplete. The idea is - of course - to provoke you to visit the website. And yes, if you buy something I get a kickback.
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The artist of course, is Janis Joplin. People have compared me with her. I was stunned the first time a young American man compared me to her after hearing me sing in Big Bang. He said: “I thought Janis was alive again. I heard you singing this radical anti-war song - […]

Click here to read about Barcelona Jam Sessions

I just got my Vodaphone bill for the last month and it’s over €100, and I still haven’t found a place to live. Everybody who posts ads on loquo gives a mobile number and asks you call, and call we must or we’ll never find a place to live. So I call, […]

Today is my birthday and I had an email from an old friend, someone I seldom hear from and see even less, but every year he sends me birthday greetings. He asked what I am up, said not much news on the website these days, and he’s right. I write for the monthly […]

Spannabis Magazine held its annual fair this weekend in the Fira de Cornella - with 118 exhibitors offering various hemp and cannabis products - everything from seeds to classic-styled clothing, including hemp bread mix, hemp facial masque, and De Verdamper BV a smoke-less vaporiser smoking apparatus.
Each day of the 3-day event, forums were […]

So, I put together this event with Phamie whom I met on one of the rare evenings that I left my bike at home and decided to walk. She was playing in the street.

That’s a custom-built, one-of-a-kind harp she’s playing. She’s sponsored by Camac Harps, France.
She plays on this […]

After moving ten times in five months, and finally landing in a place I thought was relatively quiet, you can well imagine my frustration when I discovered a family with a seemingly endless supply of energetic, jumping, bouncing, running children living above me!
After enduring the rough-housing sound effects for two weeks less a day, […]

There is no doubt the housing market in Spain is corrupt. Here are some links to related stories.
Stories on the Abusos Urbanisticos No website links the problem to money laundering by drug lords. Canadian, Charles Svoboda, is on the executive of Abusos Urbanisticos No.
Housing is
over-priced.

ALA - Associacio Lliure Antiprohibicionista - runs regular events…
and this website.
The cafe operates on the ground floor of C/dels Salvador, 20 in the Raval. Enter through a small black door, the name ALA painted in large, white letters above a green canibas leaf.
Just inside the door you will find […]

Smog hangs over the Mediterranean
Barcelona air pollution exceeds the Kyoto Protocal limits by 40%. The air here stinks - literally.*
Though I did find a pocket of fresh air beside Mont Juic Park when I looked at an apartment there yesterday. I would like to sleep next to that park, and I’m interested in […]

Pick of the Week…

Sunlight Plays on Wall in 15th floor luxury apartment in Diagonal Mar

View from the Balcony, looking towards the sea

The apartment blocks surround a futuristic park.

The Diagonal Mar shopping plaza is steps away…
and the beach is just 10 minutes walk.

Metro, tram and bus are outside your front door…cycle paths take you to the […]

Christmas Spirit 2006, original digital artwork, copyright Alison Boston

Well, I’ve been in Barcelona just over 3 months now and I have just moved into my sixth accomodation (seven if you count the crazy woman I left my bags with for 1/2 a day, then chose not to sleep there for even one night!) […]

I believe we need some kind of global body that will standardize accreditation, and negotiate with countries to recognize an accredited native speaker teacher as a type of global citizen, and thereby permit that person to work in signed countries, issue invoices to their employers, and pay taxes in their home, or ‘native’ country as a self-employed person, complete with legitimate business expenses and yes, appropriate tax and social contributions.