Steve is giving us all this week a basic education in dragonflies and damselflies. “Dragonflies spend a lot of time around water for a couple of reasons…
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A guide to Spain: environment, geography, nature, landscape, climate, culture, history, rural tourism and travel
Around the web- Los Cuadernos de Campo de Doñana, un tesoro científico disponible en Internet
- Los buitres nos permiten ahorrar mucha energía
- Un pájaro que habitó Tenerife ayuda a comprender la evolución de las aves
- Resucitan a una mosca extinguida
- La Junta liberará en octubre a un nuevo lince de Sierra Morena en Doñana para reforzar la población
- El censo de osas con crías arroja una cifra record en la población occidental: 21 osas y 43 crías
- Recuperados 15 pollos de águila imperial en Andalucía, un nuevo record
- Fallece uno de los linces liberados en Córdoba
- Lucy’s nature blog
- A diversity of spidersIf you wish to live and thrive, let the spider run alive Enthroned in a Pitch Trefoil flower, the Heather crab spider (Thomisus onustus) had arrayed its legs like a multi-limbed deity. The colour of raspberry-ripple ice cream, it blended in well with the purple bloom where it meditated, invisible to prey and predator. Enormous […]
- A diversity of spiders
- Spain culture
- Words and concepts in Spanish that don’t exist in EnglishHere are a few words and expressions in Castilian Spanish that don’t exist in English, and perhaps could be borrowed. Foreigners speakers of Spanish in Spain certainly use so of them with alarming frequency with other English speakers in Spain, as do our Spanish friends and spouses. The list does not include food terms (covered […]
- Words and concepts in Spanish that don’t exist in English
- Spain travel
- Travelling around Spain on a scooterEntertaining video from the Guardian here showing a woman travelling around rural Almeria on a Vespa scooter. […]
- Travelling around Spain on a scooter
- Barcelona blog
- The bombing of BarcelonaHere’s my latest article published in the Barcelona Metropolitan 75 years ago, on the evening of 13th February 1937, an Italian cruiser off the coast of Barcelona fired shells at an arms factory on Passeig Sant Joan. They missed their target and 18 people were killed. A month later came the first raid from the […]
- The bombing of Barcelona
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