
Sexy Iberian Village of the Week: Montefrio
Packed in between a river lined with ruined windmills and olive groves on one side and the prehistoric burial chambers of the gloriously...
Douchebag's Guide to Carbon Footprint Reduction
Every day I wake up and blithely contribute to climate change. Out of mental lethargy and a misguided sense of being too busy, I...

Shit Barcelona: A Guided Tour
From crap fashion to cheesy tourism, annoying stag nights and theft-related ethical dilemmas, here are just a few of the things that can...

Bowling for Columbidae: Reducing BCN's Pigeon Population
Topic: Too many pigeons. How many is too many? According to the Generalitat, BCN's population of the cooing columbidae genus is currently...
Metropolitan Green Card: Promoting Public Transport in Barcelona
Trade in your old car and get three years free public transport; the latest idea to reduce traffic and contamination in Barcelona. The...
Spanish Schools Improving According to PISA Results
Spanish education is 'at last beginning to leave mediocrity behind'. This is El Periodico's interpretation of the latest annual...

Spain's Frontier Towns
Approximately 120 million packets of tobacco are imported into Gibraltar every year - suspiciously more than is needed for a population of o

Meridiana, An Avenida In Search Of A Soul
After the unveiling of the first supermanzanas in Poblenou and the Cajón de Sants urban walkway this summer, Barcelona's council is...

Classic Sunday Excursions from Barcelona in Winter
Late autumn is a good time to visit La Garrotxa natural park. Covering a series of soft hills surrounded by volcanos, La Fageda D'en Jorda i

Life in the Early Posthumanist Age
'Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity,' said the American futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil. 'We created them to...